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.
Festivals

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.
Festivals

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.
Festivals

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.
Festivals

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.
Festivals

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.
Festivals

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.
Festivals

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.

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