Toronto Film Festival

How to Blow Up a Pipeline – first-look review

By Mark Asch

A group of activists take radical action against climate change in Daniel Goldhaber's eco-thriller.

My Policeman – first-look review

By David Jenkins

This compelling, queer-edged melodrama starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin charts the fall-out of impossible passions.

Causeway – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Jennifer Lawrence plays an army veteran trying to adapt to civilian life in Lila Neugebauer's understated feature debut.

The Fabelmans – first-look review

By Mark Asch

This bittersweet rummage through the Spielberg family album sees the maestro deliver a late-career masterwork.

The best international genre films at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival

By Erin Brady

Mercenaries and demonic encounters featured in some of the most interesting films that played at this year’s TIFF.

One Second – first look review

By Daniel Schindel

A return to form for China’s Zhang Yimou with this tale of a village attempting to restore a damaged movie reel.

Jagged – first-look review

By Sydney Urbanek

Alison Klayman delves into the origins and legacy of Alanis Morissette’s groundbreaking album ‘Jagged Little Pill’.

The Humans – first-look review

By Saffron Maeve

Stephen Karam adapts his own Tony Award-winning family drama with the help of an impressive ensemble cast.

The Mad Woman’s Ball – first-look review

By Erin Brady

A woman who sees spirits is committed to a psychiatric hospital in this book adaptation by Mélanie Laurent.

Encounter – first look review

By Hannah Strong

Riz Ahmed is a father on a mission to save his sons from an extraterrestrial threat in Michael Pearce’s complex sci-fi drama.

The Forgiven – first-look review

By Saffron Maeve

Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes spend a fateful weekend in Morocco in John Michael McDonagh’s scabrous class satire.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

Jessica Chastain goes all-out in Michael Showalter’s superficial biopic of televangelist Tammy Faye Messner.

Neptune Frost – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman ponder post-colonisation in this percussive, transcendental Afrofuturist musical.

Earwig – first-look review

By Saffron Maeve

A middle-aged man tends to a young girl with ice dentures in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s elliptical English-language debut.

Dashcam – first-look review

By Erin Brady

Rob Savage’s follow-up to Host is a terrifying yet frustrating experience about social media narcissism.

Dear Evan Hansen – first-look review

By Corey Atad

Ben Platt stars as a high-schooler whose white lie snowballs out of control in Stephen Chbosky’s dismal adaptation of the smash-hit musical.

10 must-see shorts from the Toronto International Film Festival 2020

By Hannah Strong

This year’s Short Cuts programme brought together bite-size perspectives from around the world.

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