TIFF 2020 ran from September 10 to 19, 2020 and was the festival’s first virtual event, featuring drive-in theatres, special screenings, and online film viewing.
A subtle, yet intensely passionate period love story, Ammonite is the type of film that can tell more with images and glances than most epic novels could manage with thousands of words
The Best is Yet to Come, the feature directorial debut of longtime Jia Zhang-ke collaborator and first-assistant director Wang Jing, is both a social issue …
Fauna, the ninth (and in some ways, most straightforward) film from Mexican-Canadian writer-director Nicolás Pereda, is a keenly perceptive, metafictional look at the impact “true …
For his latest epic, observational look at a complex system and the roots branching out from them, City Hall, esteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his …
A simply told but richly detailed story of siblings coping with a shared trauma and the spectre of mental illness in different ways, Wildfire, the …
A lazily reductive and somewhat insulting bit of performative activism writ large, the anti-bullying drama Good Joe Bell is trying too desperately to be “Green …
Winner of this year’s Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco’s latest, New Order, is a bracing, pointed, and occasionally sloppy …
The 45th Toronto International Film Festival is celebrating a lot of change this year, and that includes the launch of the inaugural TIFF Tribute Awards …
Uncomfortable honesty seems to be the theme most prevalent throughout the films found in the fifth and final programme of shorts at this year’s Toronto …
Mira Nair’s epic romantic miniseries A Suitable Boy closes out this year’s Toronto International Film Festival with a suitably binge-worthy epic.
Italian filmmaker and documentarian Gianfranco Rossi is a master of capturing profound images that speak volumes about the human condition, and his latest, Notturno, is …
The true power of Pieces of a Woman lies in the increasing emotional toll of every moment that follows in the wake of its tremendous, …
An assured, albeit somewhat basic and overindulgent directorial debut from Viggo Mortensen, Falling is the type of drama one can tell was made by a …
For better and worse, comparisons to the likes of Lars von Trier and Brian De Palma will be somewhat unavoidable when looking at Canadian writer-directors …
The most common theme to be found in Short Cuts Programme 04 at this year’s Toronto International film festival is the testing and changing of …
Some of the most fun one can have watching wickedly evil and irredeemable people tearing each other apart, J Blakeson’s sunny looking but coal mine …
The queer romance-slash-literary minded mystery Summer of 85, the latest from prolific French auteur François Ozon, starts off as a darker and mildly intriguing riff …
Canadian made coming of age stories aren’t anything new, but few are as layered, complex, and profound as Tracey Deer’s flooring Beans.
Not only does Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s Canadian produced documentary No Ordinary Man go to great lengths to reclaim the insidiously rewritten history of …
An exciting, heartfelt, and socially conscious animated epic for the whole family, Wolfwalkers dazzles with its meshing of old and new world storytelling techniques and …
The third programme of shorts at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival is an embarrassment of riches, with seven of this year’s very best offerings …
Corny, choppy, and mostly harmless, the inspirational drama Penguin Bloom is based on the true life story of an Australian family who slowly recover from …
A deeply moving motion picture about those who willingly choose to live on the margins of western society, writer-director Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland boasts one of …
A work of vanity and ego that tries and fails mightily to look like it’s about a famous person’s social advocacy, Matthew Heineman’s documentary The …
Sir Anthony Hopkins gives his best performance since the early 90s in director Florian Zeller’s complex and sorrowful drama The Father.
Akilla’s Escape is an admirable modern day morality play, but also a slight misstep from Canadian filmmaker Charles Officer.
Those with an interest in expanding their cinematic horizons and watching films on the cutting edge will feel right at home in Short Cuts Programme …
A captivating blend of razor sharp and perceptive wit and nail biting suspense, writer-director Emma Seligman’s debut feature Shiva Baby understands something that most comedies …
The gonzo Taiwanese horror-comedy Get the Hell Out – a satirical parable about a different sort of pandemic – has so much madness it could …
One Night In Miami… is movie magic, and it’s going to be one of the most talked about films at this year’s Toronto International Film …
David Byrne’s American Utopia is one of the most memorable and enjoyable opening night films in recent memory.
The Disciple, Indian writer-director Chaitanya Tamhane’s follow-up to his subtly flooring debut feature Court, is another exceptional slow burning character study that builds tension so …
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival has seen the once elephantine fall event scaled back to its bare bones essence, but the carefully selected programmes …
A rousing lesson in the many reasons why the news and the history it seeks to cover should be handled objectively and without bias, Dawn …
The Toronto International Film Festival announced ticket details and screening venues for TIFF 2020 today, and while it’s a dramatic shift from previous years, the …