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A man with long hair and sunglasses singing into a microphone on stage, accompanied by a guitarist.
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Personality Crisis: One Night Only — first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

New York Dolls front­man David Johansen takes the stage in Mar­tin Scors­ese’s lat­est music doc.
A woman with blonde hair and a man with dark hair and skin standing together in a warm, amber-toned room.
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Klokkenluider – first-look review

by Josh Slater-Williams

Actor Neil Maskell makes his debut as a film­mak­er with this spiky thriller.
A group of people, including women and children, standing or seated in a rustic indoor setting. The image has a dark, moody tone with muted colours and lighting.
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Women Talking – first-look review

by Saffron Maeve

A group of women meet in secret to dis­cuss escap­ing their abu­sive, iso­lat­ed colony in Sarah Pol­ley’s adap­ta­tion of Miri­am Towes’ novel.
A man with a serious expression, wearing a dark jacket, looking towards the camera.
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I Love My Dad – first-look review

by Callie Petch

A father imper­son­ates a young woman online in a bid to get clos­er to his son in James Morosini’s promis­ing but frus­trat­ing debut.
Portrait of a man in profile, against a plain background, wearing a light-coloured shirt.
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A Cooler Climate – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

James Ivory rem­i­nisces about a youth­ful year spent in Afghanistan with this cozy archival documentary.
Smiling boy in red and green costume hugging large green dinosaur with red horns against yellow background.
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My Father’s Dragon – first-look review

by Callie Petch

Car­toon Saloon return with a poignant tale of a boy who sets out on a quest to find a drag­on in peril.
Two people seated at a table, with one person playing an acoustic guitar while the other listens intently.
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Walk Up – first-look review

by Weiting Liu

A film­mak­er and his estranged daugh­ter vis­it an old friend in Hong Sang-soo’s lat­est riff on the con­nec­tion between art and romance.
Large group of men standing together indoors, wearing casual clothing like jeans, jumpers, and jackets in various colours.
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Mutzenbacher – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Ruth Beck­er­mann enlists a hun­dred men to read pas­sages from the con­tro­ver­sial 19th cen­tu­ry nov­el Jose­fine Mutzen­bach­er: The Life Sto­ry of a Vien­nese Whore.
Image shows a woman with long dark hair lying on a colourful bedspread, holding a white object close to her face.
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Coma — first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Bertrand Bonel­lo’s bounc­ing off the walls in this free-asso­cia­tive grab-bag of ear­ly lock­down anxieties.
Two people in an eccentric clothing shop, one person wearing a yellow floral dress and the other person wearing red trousers and a bold, patterned shirt.
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TIFF’s Midnight Madness serves up controversy as well as gore

by Michelle Krasovitski

Amidst Weird Al and were­wolves, there was anoth­er boogey­man at TIFF this year: copy­right law.