TIFF 2024: Read THR’s Reviews of the Movies Screening at the Toronto Film Festival (Updating)
- The Toronto International Film Festival features a diverse lineup of films, including biopics, documentaries, and comedies, with several titles already receiving critical acclaim at other festivals throughout the year.
As the Toronto International Film Festival gets underway, The Hollywood Reporter's 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.
Several of this year's slate have already debuted at other festivals throughout the year. For those curious about the very best the TIFF calendar has to offer, a few — but not nearly all — of the highlights include the Steven Soderbergh ghost story Presence , which David Rooney hailed as "masterfully done" out of Sundance; the Icelandic grief drama When the Light Breaks , which Lovia Gyarkye described as "impossible to shake" at Cannes; and the literary adaptation Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight , which Caryn James praised at Telluride for the "astonishing" child performance at its center.
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In addition, the lineup includes a number of highly anticipated world premieres — we're curious about David Gordon Green's Nutcracker , Marielle Heller's Nightbitch and Angelina Jolie's Without Blood , among many, many others. Plus, feature filmmaking debuts by the likes of TV director Andrew DeYoung ( Friendship ), commercials and music video director Fleur Fortuné ( The Assessment ) and actress Rebel Wilson ( The Deb ).
But perhaps most exciting, this year and ever year, is the unpredictable thrill of discovery: the possibility that any film we sit down for might become a lifelong favorite, might introduce us to a brand-new talent, might show us a way of looking at the world that we've never thought of before. We hope you'll continue to join us as we explore this year's TIFF titles — watch this space as we continue to update with new reviews posted throughout the festival.
All We Imagine as Light Sideshow/Janus; directed by Payal Kapadia; 110 minutes
And Their Children After Them Charades; directed by Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma; 144 minutes
Anora Neon; directed by Sean Baker; 138 minutes
April Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili; 134 minutes
The Assessment Amazon Prime Video; directed by Fleur Fortuné; 114 minutes
Babygirl A24; directed by Halina Reijn; 114 minutes
Battleground Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Gianni Amelio; 103 minutes
Better Man Paramount; directed by Michael Gracey; 134 minutes
Bird Mubi; directed by Andrea Arnold; 119 minutes
Bonjour Tristesse Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Durga Chew-Bose; 110 minutes
Bring Them Down Mubi; directed by Christopher Andrews; 105 minutes
The Brutalist A24; directed by Brady Corbet; 215 minutes
Caught by the Tides Sideshow/Janus; directed by Jia Zhang-Ke; 111 minutes
Cloud Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa; 124 minutes
Conclave Focus; directed by Edward Berger; 120 minutes
Dahomey Mubi; directed by Mati Diop; 68 minutes
The Damned Vertical Entertainment; directed by Roberto Minervini; 88 minutes
Daniela Forever Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Nacho Vigalondo; 118 minutes
The Deb Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Rebel Wilson; 121 minutes
Diciannove Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Giovanni Tortorici; 109 minutes
Disclaimer Apple; directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Diva Futura Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt; 129 minutes
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Embeth Davidtz; 98 minutes
Eden Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Ron Howard; 129 minutes
Elton John: Never Too Late Disney; directed by R.J. Cutler, David Furnish; 102 minutes
Emilia Pérez Netflix; directed by Jacques Audiard; 130 minutes
The End Neon; directed by Joshua Oppenheimer; 148 minutes
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Magnolia; directed by Raoul Peck; 105 minutes
The Fire Inside Amazon/MGM; directed by Rachel Morrison; 109 minutes
Flow Sideshow/Janus; directed by Gints Zilbalodis; 86 minutes
The Friend Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Scott McGehee, David Siegel; 120 minutes
Friendship Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Andrew DeYoung; 100 minutes
The Girl With the Needle Mubi; directed by Magnus von Horn; 115 minutes
Grand Tour Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Miguel Gomes; 129 minutes
Happy Holidays Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Scandar Copti; 124 minutes
Happyend Metrograph; directed by Neo Sora; 113 minutes
Hard Truths Bleecker Street; directed by Mike Leigh; 97 minutes
Harvest Mubi; directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari; 133 minutes
Heretic A24; directed by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods; 110 minutes
I'm Still Here Sony Classics; directed by Walter Salles; 135 minutes
Julie Keeps Quiet Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Leonardo van Dijl; 103 minutes
Kill the Jockey Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Luis Ortega; 96 minutes
The Last Republican Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Steve Pink; 90 minutes
The Last Showgirl Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Gia Coppola; 85 minutes
The Life of Chuck Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Mike Flanagan; 110 minutes
The Luckiest Man in America Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Samir Oliveros; 90 minutes
Meet the Barbarians Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Julie Delpy; 101 minutes
Megalopolis Lionsgate; directed by Francis Ford Coppola; 138 minutes
Memoir of a Snail IFC; directed by Adam Elliot; 94 minutes
Misericordia Janus; directed by Alain Guiraudie; 102 minutes
My Sunshine Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Hiroshi Okuyama; 90 minutes
Nightbitch Searchlight; directed by Marielle Heller; 98 minutes
No Other Land Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor; 96 minutes
Nutcrackers Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by David Gordon Green; 104 minutes
Oh, Canada Kino Lorber; directed by Paul Schrader; 91 minutes
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl A24; directed by Rungano Nyoni; 95 minutes
On Swift Horses Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Daniel Minahan; 119 minutes
The Order Vertical Entertainment; directed by Justin Kurzel; 116 minutes
Pepe Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias; 122 minutes
The Piano Lesson Netflix; directed by Malcolm Washington; 125 minutes
Piece by Piece Focus; directed by Morgan Neville; 93 minutes
Presence Neon; directed by Steven Soderbergh; 85 minutes
Queer A24; directed by Luca Guadagnino; 135 minutes
Relay Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by David Mackenzie; 112 minutes
The Return Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Uberto Pasolini; 116 minutes
Riff Raff Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Dito Montiel; 103 minutes
The Room Next Door Sony Classics; directed by Pedro Almodóvar; 107 minutes
Rumours Bleecker Street; directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson; 118 minutes
Santosh Metrograph; directed by Sandhya Suri; 120 minutes
Saturday Night Sony; directed by Jason Reitman; 103 minutes
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Neon; directed by Mohammad Rasoulof; 168 minutes
Shell ; directed by Max Minghella; 100 minutes
The Shrouds Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by David Cronenberg; 119 minutes
Sketch Morphan Time; directed by Seth Worley; 92 minutes
The Story of Souleymane Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Boris Lojkine; 102 minutes
The Substance Mubi; directed by Coralie Fargeat; 140 minutes
Three Friends Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Emmanuel Mouret; 117 minutes
To a Land Unknown Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Mahdi Fleifel; 105 minutes
Universal Language Oscilloscope; directed by Matthew Rankin; 89 minutes
Unstoppable Amazon/MGM; directed by William Goldenberg; 116 minutes
Vermiglio Sideshow/Janus; directed by Maura Delpero; 116 minutes
The Village Next to Paradise Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Mo Harawe; 133 minutes
We Live in Time A24; directed by John Crowley; 108 minutes
Went Up the Hill Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Samuel Van Grinsven; 99 minutes
When The Light Breaks Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Runar Runarsson; 80 minutes
The Wild Robot DreamWorks; directed by Chris Sanders; 102 minutes
Will & Harper Netflix; directed by Josh Greenbaum; 114 minutes
Without Blood Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Angelina Jolie; 91 minutes
Youth (Homecoming) Still seeking U.S. distribution; directed by Wang Bing; 152 minutes
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