Toronto Film Festival
Toronto Dispatch – Fauna / The Best Is Yet to Come
My favorite thing about watching films at film festivals is the variety. You may watch one that spends two hours...
Toronto Dispatch – The Whaler Boy
When you’re watching a film about a Chukotkan whlae hunter, you don’t necessarily expect it to open in a seedy...
Toronto Dispatch – Spring Blossom
God bless the French for making so many movies about love. The good kind of love, the bad kind of...
Toronto Dispatch – Pieces of a Woman / Summer of 85
In two films I saw today, the protagonist ends up in court, a place for finding the truth and administering...
Toronto Dispatch – Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time / Shiva Baby
One of the great joys of covering film festivals is the discovery of talents, the sense of being struck by...
Toronto Dispatch – Nomadland
One of the most hotly anticipated films of this festival season finally premiered today. Written for the screen, directed and...
Toronto Dispatch – The Disciple
Being a longtime admirer, it’s a particular thrill for me to receive accreditation to cover the Toronto International Film Festival...
A Snapshot of the Toronto Film Fest and Best Picture
Do we have our Best Picture winner in Telluride or Toronto? Has it already been seen? The last film to...
A Suspiciously Dead Father, a Disorderly Dying Mother, and a Wistfully Animated Journey into India
Knives Out Sometimes you watch a film that has everything you want in a movie, executed perfectly. Sometimes you see a...
TIFF Review: Three Movies About Souls Lost and Found
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood How does one tell a story about Mister Rogers? Fred Rogers was by all...
TIFF Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Viggo Mortensen Becomes Best Actor Frontrunner as Green Book Wins People’s Choice Award in Toronto
Green Book, as predicted by Kris Tapley, has taken the People's Choice Audience Award at Toronto. Runners up were If...
Toronto Shocker: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri Wins Audience Award!
The films that were expected to win Toronto did not. Instead, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri instead! I guess we...
Toronto dispatch: Glenn Close storms to the forefront once again in The Wife
Women dominate Toronto this year. Among the exemplary performances we’ve seen in the last 10 days: Frances McDormand in “Three...
TIFF Review – Gaga: Five Foot Two Is A Raw and Emotional Look At the World Behind Lady Gaga
It's been a mere nine years since Lady Gaga burst onto the scene with the release of Just Dance and...
TIFF Interview: “As A Society We Are All Responsible.” – Vivian Qu Discusses Her New Film Angels Wear White
This is the second time Vivian Qu has brought a film to the Toronto Film Festival. She was last here in...
Glenn Close Does Finest Work of Her Career, Says Bradshaw
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gives four stars for Glenn Close in The Wife - Close, who has never won an...
Premieres take center stage at TIFF, with Denzel Washington as Roman J Israel ESQ
Premieres abound on the fourth day of TIFF. Alfonso-Gomez Rejon brought "The Current War" on the red carpet, a drama...
TIFF Interview: Barbara Albert discusses Mademoiselle Paradis
Mademoiselle Paradis opens with a gripping shot of Maria Paradis, a blind musician and composer. Rather than cut away, we...
TIFF Trio of Best Actress hopefuls: Saoirse Ronan, Jessica Chastain, Margot Robbie
If Telluride has been the place to find the next Best Picture winner, 11 years running now, TIFF has always...