Toronto Film Festival | Little White Lies

Toronto Film Festival

Two women in a bathroom, one reaching up to a hand dryer on the wall.
Festivals

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.
Crowd of protesters amid smoke and chaos, police officers stand on an elevated platform.
Festivals

Les Indésirables – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Ladj Ly’s follow-up to his Cesar award-winning Les Misérables is a hyperbolic state-of-the-nation address that lacks the logic and fire of that first feature.
Two characters embracing in a rural outdoor setting with trees and a lake in the background.
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The Boy and the Heron – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Less a swansong and more a heronsong from the Japanese maestro Hayao Miyazaki, a mystical and ambitious message of hope for the future.
Two people, a woman and a man, walking through a field with a telephone pole in the background.
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The Royal Hotel – first-look review

by Mark Asch

More cinema of ominous discomfort from Kitty Green as she takes us to an out-of-the-way Australian boozer for some low-boiling violence.
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.
Silhouetted hikers against sunset sky, rugged terrain in background.
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Bruiser – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Miles Warren explores the dichotomy of nature vs nurture through a lost teenager’s longing for paternal guidance.
Two people, a woman and a man, facing each other with serious expressions.
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Prisoner’s Daughter – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Brian Cox plays a dying convict trying to free himself from the prison of his past through forgiveness of his daughter in Catherine Hardwicke’s formulaic family drama.
A woman with dark hair and red jacket smiling in a dimly lit room.
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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.
Silhouetted figure playing trumpet on stage, with dramatic lighting and shadows.
Festivals

A Jazzman’s Blues – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

Tyler Perry tries his hand at serious-minded filmmaking with this overwrought Deep South melodrama.
Man with moustache wearing a checked shirt and leaning against a wall.
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Zac Efron goes on a mission to bring tinnies to the troops in this banter‑y Vietnam War movie misfire from Peter Farrelly.