Toronto Film Festival

Next Goal Wins – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Taika Waititi is way-too eager to please with this aggressively feel-good comic fictionalisation of the lovely 2014 documentary of the same name.

Woman of the Hour – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, about a abused upstart actress and a serial killer in her midst, says all the right things, but too loud and too often.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – first-look review

By Mark Asch

The new film from one of Romania's foremost cine-ironists, Radu Jude, is a glorious, poisonous, everything-in-the-pot treatise on the state of the world today.

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.

Empire of Light – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Olivia Colman channels her inner Anna Karina in director Sam Mendes’ mawkish ode to the magic of the movies.

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.

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.

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