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Toronto International Film Festival 2019

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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
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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?
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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...
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Toronto Film Festival 2017

Molly's Game
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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.
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Toronto Film Festival 2016

The Girl with All the Gifts
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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.
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Toronto Film Festival 2015

Evolution
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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...
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Toronto Film Festival 2014

The Judge
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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
Movies

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...
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Toronto Film Festival 2013

12 Years a Slave
Movies

12 Years a Slave

We review the festival's first sensation, a triumph from director Steve McQueen.
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Toronto Film Festival 2012

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Toronto Film Festival 2011

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Toronto Film Festival 2010

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Toronto Film Festival 2009

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