toronto 2024
‘Meet the Barbarians’ Review: Julie Delpy’s Middling Refugee Comedy Has Its Heart in the Right Place
The latest feature from the director of '2 Days in Paris' reveals what happens when a tiny French town welcomes a Syrian family into its midst.
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‘Relay’ Review: Riz Ahmed Excels in David Mackenzie’s Mostly Clever Paranoid Thriller
The actor plays a fixer who brokers deals between whistleblowers and corporations in this gritty drama, also starring Lily James and Sam Worthington.
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‘Sketch’ Review: A Tender Tony Hale Anchors an Audacious, Intensely Colorful Tween Adventure
A 10-year-old girl's grief manifests as violent drawings come to life in writer-director Seth Worley's Spielbergian debut feature, also starring D'Arcy Carden.
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Native Trans Director Sydney Freeland Talks Authentic Casting: “I’m Double Used to Being Misrepresented”
Sydney Freeland in the long journey to complete her Netflix basketball-focused feature film, produced by LeBron James, had as a key goal to show real native lives on screen. But finding Indigenous basketball players was easier said than done, or at least at first, Freeland told a Toronto Film Festival audience on Monday. “Netflix bought the […]
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‘Bring Them Down’ Review: Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan Are Compelling as Feuding Shepherds in an Otherwise Dour Irish Drama
The first feature from writer-director Christopher Andrews, about a violent turf war between two families of sheep herders, premiered in Toronto.
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‘The Life of Chuck’ Review: Despite a Dancing Tom Hiddleston, Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King Adaptation Can’t Quite Find Its Footing
Mark Hamill, Karen Gillan and Chiwetel Ejiofor also star in the genre-tripping film about embracing hope in the face of tragedy.
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‘The Last Showgirl’ Backer Pinky Promise on Building a “New and Exciting” Slate
When Kara Durrett and Jesse Burgum, the duo behind the production-finance company Pinky Promise, first met, it was 104 degrees. They were filming in the attic of a church in Decatur, Georgia, working on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, the first movie Burgum financed where Durrett was working as an independent producer. “A lot […]
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Film Academy, BAFTA, Grammys Heads on Diversity Progress, AI, and Modernizing Awards Shows
How to handle and regulate AI, how to continue making awards shows more appealing to a broader audience, and how key improving diversity is to ensuring relevance and revenue were just some of the questions discussed by the heads of the organizations behind the Oscars, BAFTA Awards and Grammys in Toronto on Sunday morning. Bill […]
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Malcolm Washington on Surprising His Mom With ‘The Piano Lesson’ Tribute
“It’s all a little overwhelming. When you make something that’s so personal to you, it feels like you’re just making it for yourself or for your people. But then you’re reminded that this will exist in the world,” says Malcolm Washington of his feature directorial debut, The Piano Lesson. The adaptation of the August Wilson […]
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TIFF According to Neon Non-Fiction Head Dan O’Meara
Dan O’Meara heads up non-fiction at indie powerhouse Neon, where he has recently worked on films like Andrew McCarthy’s Brat Pack title Brats and GameStop stock doc Rise of the Players. He will be on the ground at the Toronto Film Festival with the documentary Men of War. Described by TIFF programmers as “Rambo meets […]
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‘We Live in Time’ Review: Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield Deliver Achingly Resonant Performances in a Poignant Romantic Drama
The two-hander, about a contemporary British couple facing a devastating medical diagnosis, is the latest from 'Brooklyn' director John Crowley.
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‘The Last Showgirl’ Review: Pamela Anderson Mines Pathos as an Abruptly Unanchored Las Vegas Performer in Gia Coppola’s Mood Piece
Jamie Lee Curtis and Kiernan Shipka also star in this peek behind the sequins, feathers and neon at the lives of women once their dreams dissolve.
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