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TIFF 2024: Read THR’s Reviews of the Movies Screening at the Toronto Film Festival (Updating)
The Hollywood Reporter critics weigh in on this year’s crop of titles, from biopics to documentaries, sweeping epics to intimate character studies, tear-jerking dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies.
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‘Better Man’ Review: ‘Greatest Showman’ Director Tackles Robbie Williams Biopic, With a Simian Twist and Mixed Results
Michael Gracey's film about the British pop star features a computer-generated monkey in the lead role (yes, you read that right).
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‘Saturday Night’ Review: Jason Reitman Chronicles the Lead-Up to the First ‘SNL’ Show in Alternately Fresh and Frustrating Fashion
Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Willem Dafoe, Dylan O'Brien and J.K. Simmons are among the ensemble in this dramatization of the 90 minutes before the big premiere.
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‘Conclave’ Review: Ralph Fiennes Gives a Career-Best Performance in Edward Berger’s Gripping Vatican-Set Drama
Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow co-star in this film about the behind-the-scenes workings of choosing a new pope after the death of the previous pontiff.
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‘Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid’ Review: James Carville Doc Is a Punchy Portrait of a Political Provocateur
Director Matt Tyrnauer focuses on the Democratic operative's long career and his unlikely marriage to Republican adviser Mary Matalin.
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‘Reagan’ Review: Dennis Quaid Headlines an Overly Reverential Tribute to a Controversial Politician
Jon Voight, Mena Suvari and Penelope Ann Miller also star in the biopic directed by Sean McNamara ('Soul Surfer'), which hits all the major events of the former president's life and career.
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‘Freud’s Last Session’ Review: Ace Turns by Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode Are Undercut by Subplot Overload
Matthew Brown's film, which had its world premiere at AFI Fest, is an adaptation of an off-Broadway play centering on an imagined exchange between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis.
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‘Leave the World Behind’ Review: Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali in Sam Esmail’s Not Quite Satisfying Dystopian Vision
Ethan Hawke also stars in the AFI Fest opener, based on the best-selling suspense novel by Rumaan Alam.
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‘The Monk and the Gun’ Review: From Bhutan, a Wry Satirical Comedy About Democracy and Violence
The film is the latest from Pawo Choyning Dorji, director of the Oscar-nominated 'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.'
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‘Daddio’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn Shine in a Taxi-Set Two-Hander
First-time writer-director Christy Hall's film follows a woman and her driver as they open up to each other over the course of a cab ride.
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‘Nyad’ Review: Annette Bening and Jodie Foster Are Superb in a Moving Tribute to Marathon Swimmer
Oscar-winning documentary filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin ('Free Solo') direct their first narrative feature, about Diana Nyad's history-making swim from Cuba to Florida at age 64.
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‘The Holdovers’ Review: Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti Reunite for an Imperfect but Rewarding Campus Dramedy
Da'Vine Joy Randolph and newcomer Dominic Sessa co-star in this Telluride world premiere about a teacher and student stuck together during Christmas break.
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