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Charles Dickens comes to life in a vigorous, zany adaptation that feels like a vacation for Veep creator Armando Iannucci
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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.
The 44th annual TIFF runs September 5–15, 2019.
The festival takes place at various venues in Toronto, Canada.
Buy tickets at the official festival website.
Charles Dickens comes to life in a vigorous, zany adaptation that feels like a vacation for Veep creator Armando Iannucci
A golden boy loses his footing—and a younger sister gains hers—in Trey Edward Shults’s radiant family tragedy
Murder, skulduggery and an avalanche of plotting makes Rian Johnson's latest a pleasure for those who enjoy being dizzied
Tom Hanks is a beaming, slightly cryptic Fred Rogers in a movie that's more about a journalist in need of a hug
A Nazi boy befriends a fantasy Führer in Taika Waititi's audacious WWII comedy, charting its way into a tough subject
Sponsored racecar drivers feel the need for speed in a drama goosed by star power but slackened by corporate intrigue
Slavishly faithful to the book's subplots but stuck in a two-and-a-half-hour brood, the film version never takes wing
Adam Sandler juggles a gambling addiction, a jewelry shop and a potential windfall in an intense high-stakes triumph
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.
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen swerves into the fast lane with an expertly plotted crime movie that’s a showcase for scrappiness.
La La Land's Damien Chazelle turns the epochal 1969 lunar landing into a piece of breathtaking visual poetry.
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...
Sparkling indies, future Oscar contenders and midnight fun machines jockeyed for our attention at TIFF
Aaron Sorkin and Jessica Chastain pool their formidable talents to tackle a larger-than-life story that bubbles with smarts.
Saoirse Ronan stars in writer-director Greta Gerwig’s semi-autobiographical drama, a film filled with the wry wisdom of distance.
The world's worst film gets an affectionate making-of dramatization that's half as weird as the real thing.
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.
Commandingly complex, Natalie Portman triumphs in a real-life story pitched an an unthinkable moment of national tragedy.
Playwright David Hare recalls the true tale of David Irving, the Holocaust-denying historian, in a movie that's duller than its subject.
This meat-and-potatoes real-life disaster movie restages the 2010 oil-rig explosion that killed 11 men.
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...
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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...
A revolution in action cinema that works despite its utter silliness (or because of it), Russia-born filmmaker Ilya Naishuller’s supercharged, wholly...
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
European actors (including future Mad Max Tom Hardy) do an uneven job bringing a "hey-yous-guys" Brooklyn crime drama to life.
Viciously funny, it twins the frenetic hunt for shocking footage with the career ambitions of a closet psycho, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
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...
Our first day at the fest has sex on the brain, generously onscreen, and long after the love is gone.
We review the festival's first sensation, a triumph from director Steve McQueen.
The Seinfeld star talks about comic humiliation and working with James Gandolfini.
Hustlers play the odds in three studies of brinkmanship.
Read our first impressions after the official North American premiere.
David O. Russell and Sarah Polley connect as the fest heats up.
The fest yields a cornucopia of crazy from the Wachowskis and Brian De Palma.
Ambition and go-for-broke nuttiness mark the 2012 edition.
From a schedule aching with choices, here's what's unmissable.
Yes, we're chastising a therapy movie for being too talky.
Director Sarah Polley is still a shaper of fine performances.
And then, like that, Toronto offers up a title that makes attendance so rewarding.
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