Toronto film festival 2024
From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?
With most of the year’s awards-aiming films now premiered at fests, potential nominees are starting to fall into place
Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck wins Toronto film festival award
Audience award, typically handed to film that goes on to enjoy Oscar success, was won by Tom Hiddleston-led drama
The British are coming, again! Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig and Hugh Grant set for Oscars face-off
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The End review – Joshua Oppenheimer’s end-of-days musical is ambitious and exhausting
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Saturday Night review – tedious SNL origins tale is an unfunny misfire‘Do you have contempt for my views?’ How a leftwing film-maker and a Republican came together
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The Piano Lesson review – powerful yet patchy August Wilson dramaFantastic performances from Danielle Deadwyler and Samuel L Jackson enliven a soulful, if imbalanced, Netflix adaptation
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Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkey biopic is a bananas gamble that pays offThe life of the ego-driven showman is turned into an unlikely yet surprisingly entertaining saga with a CGI monkey in the lead
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Vermiglio review – secrets and lies in idyllic Italian village in the shadow of warMaura Delpero’s beautifully-made drama explores the complex dynamics of a sprawling family near the wartime border with Germany
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Conclave review – Ralph Fiennes takes charge of tense papal election thriller‘I’ve never seen the depth of moral corruption’: controversial Netanyahu doc screens at Toronto
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Without Blood review – Angelina Jolie’s lacklustre war drama is another misfireFirst look review
Heretic review – Hugh Grant has devilishly dark fun in talky, twisty horror
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The Return review – Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite in drab dramaFirst look review
Relay review – Riz Ahmed is a fixer on a mission in a throwback thrillerPatti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen’s wife and bandmate, reveals blood cancer diagnosis
Elton John: Donald Trump’s Rocket Man nickname for Kim Jong-un was ‘brilliant’ and ‘hilarious’
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Nightbitch review – Amy Adams turns into a dog in rough dark comedyFirst look review
Piece by Piece review – Pharrell’s Lego biopic deserves to be a blockbusterFirst look review
The Assessment review – Alicia Vikander is future parents’ worst nightmare
About 34 results for Toronto film festival 2024