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Toronto International Film Festival 2019

Follow this year’s TIFF with exclusive coverage, including reviews, news and more

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Each September, the Toronto International Film Festival screens more than 300 films from over 60 countries, drawing in an estimated 400,000 attendees. Open to the public, the annual showcase features movies from all genres in cinema, including Hollywood blockbusters, indies, documentaries and foreign films. Considered to be one of the most esteemed film festivals alongside the revered Cannes Film Festival, TIFF is known for its ability to generate Academy Award buzz.

When is the Toronto Film Festival?

The 44th annual TIFF runs September 5–15, 2019.

Where is the Toronto Film Festival?

The festival takes place at various venues in Toronto, Canada.

How do I get tickets?

Buy tickets at the official festival website.

Toronto Film Festival 2019

Waves

Waves

  • 4 out of 5 stars

A golden boy loses his footing—and a younger sister gains hers—in Trey Edward Shults’s radiant family tragedy

Knives Out

Knives Out

  • 3 out of 5 stars

Murder, skulduggery and an avalanche of plotting makes Rian Johnson's latest a pleasure for those who enjoy being dizzied

Jojo Rabbit

Jojo Rabbit

  • 4 out of 5 stars

A Nazi boy befriends a fantasy Führer in Taika Waititi's audacious WWII comedy, charting its way into a tough subject

Ford v Ferrari

Ford v Ferrari

  • 3 out of 5 stars

Sponsored racecar drivers feel the need for speed in a drama goosed by star power but slackened by corporate intrigue

The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

Slavishly faithful to the book's subplots but stuck in a two-and-a-half-hour brood, the film version never takes wing

Uncut Gems

Uncut Gems

  • 5 out of 5 stars

Adam Sandler juggles a gambling addiction, a jewelry shop and a potential windfall in an intense high-stakes triumph

Toronto Film Festival 2018

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

  • 4 out of 5 stars

Two struggling souls come together to pull off a hoax on a world that's rejected them, in this powerhouse showcase for Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.

Widows

Widows

  • 5 out of 5 stars

Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen swerves into the fast lane with an expertly plotted crime movie that’s a showcase for scrappiness.

First Man

First Man

  • 4 out of 5 stars

La La Land's Damien Chazelle turns the epochal 1969 lunar landing into a piece of breathtaking visual poetry.

Vox Lux

Vox Lux

  • 3 out of 5 stars

The flip side to A Star Is Born, director Brady Corbet’s indie rise of a pop icon—played by a fearless Natalie Portman—is an uneven but...

Toronto Film Festival 2017

Molly's Game

Molly's Game

  • 4 out of 5 stars

Aaron Sorkin and Jessica Chastain pool their formidable talents to tackle a larger-than-life story that bubbles with smarts.

Lady Bird

Lady Bird

  • 5 out of 5 stars

Saoirse Ronan stars in writer-director Greta Gerwig’s semi-autobiographical drama, a film filled with the wry wisdom of distance.

The Disaster Artist

The Disaster Artist

  • 3 out of 5 stars

The world's worst film gets an affectionate making-of dramatization that's half as weird as the real thing.

Toronto Film Festival 2016

The Girl with All the Gifts

The Girl with All the Gifts

  • 5 out of 5 stars

Easily the best thing to happen to the undead since 28 Days Later, this unusually thoughtful zombie film peps up tired blood with fresh ideas.

Jackie

Jackie

  • 5 out of 5 stars

Commandingly complex, Natalie Portman triumphs in a real-life story pitched an an unthinkable moment of national tragedy.

Denial

Denial

  • 3 out of 5 stars

Playwright David Hare recalls the true tale of David Irving, the Holocaust-denying historian, in a movie that's duller than its subject.

Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon

  • 3 out of 5 stars

This meat-and-potatoes real-life disaster movie restages the 2010 oil-rig explosion that killed 11 men.

Toronto Film Festival 2015

Evolution

Evolution

  • 4 out of 5 stars

Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s unforgettably unsettling Evolution is set on a rustic island somewhere off the coast of France, perhaps in the stretch of azure sea...

The Meddler

The Meddler

  • 3 out of 5 stars

Imagine if Clueless had starred a 68-year-old Susan Sarandon as an overbearing mother and you’ll have the right idea about Lorene Scafaria’s The Meddler, a...

Hardcore

Hardcore

  • 5 out of 5 stars

A revolution in action cinema that works despite its utter silliness (or because of it), Russia-born filmmaker Ilya Naishuller’s supercharged, wholly...

Toronto Film Festival 2014

The Judge

The Judge

  • 3 out of 5 stars

Robert Downey Jr. stars in the sort of legal drama that shouts where it could whisper and stomps where it could tiptoe—not always disagreeably

The Drop

The Drop

  • 3 out of 5 stars

European actors (including future Mad Max Tom Hardy) do an uneven job bringing a "hey-yous-guys" Brooklyn crime drama to life.

Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler

  • 5 out of 5 stars

Viciously funny, it twins the frenetic hunt for shocking footage with the career ambitions of a closet psycho, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.

Tusk

Tusk

  • 3 out of 5 stars

One imagines the scariest thing to Kevin Smith would be the inability to speak—and that's exactly what he explores in this captivatingly weird...

Toronto Film Festival 2013

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

We review the festival's first sensation, a triumph from director Steve McQueen.

Toronto Film Festival 2012

Toronto Film Festival 2011