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Tiff 2024

  1. movie review
    The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s PlayMalcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms.
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    Hugh Grant Was Born to Play the VillainGrant’s been terrific in recent years as characters of questionable moral standing, but his riveting turn in Heretic is something else entirely.
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    Is a Movie About Electing a Pope Allowed to Be This Entertaining?Conclave combines the pulp velocity of a great airport read with the gravitas of high drama.
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    We Live in Time Failed to Move My Cold, Cold HeartI never really bought the onscreen relationship, in part because I could constantly feel the movie trying too hard.
  5. gold rush
    How to Bet on Oscar SeasonTwo movie columnists explain how they are making sense of this year’s Academy Awards contenders.
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    The Wild Robot Will Ruin YouChris Sanders’s The Wild Robot has a somewhat familiar set-up. But then you look at the movie — really look at it — and a whole new world opens up.
  7. a long talk
    This Might Be the Most Ambitious and Delirious Thing Joe Wright Has Ever DoneBefore he made M. Son of the Century, he was “watching the rise of the far right across the world” and growing “very concerned.”
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    You’d Think Watching Tilda Swinton in an Apocalypse Movie Musical Would Be FunBut at two and a half very staid hours, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a punishing picture.
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    The Penguin Lessons Is the Perfect Film Festival Chill-Down MovieAs essential as any gala premiere or awards-buzz breakthrough, the chill-down movie is the cure for film-festival burnout.
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    The Thing About BarryAt Toronto International Film Festival, Barry Keoghan is a meme king who’s extremely good at his actual job (acting).
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    Relay Might Be the Next Great Corporate Espionage ThrillerBut it’s the rare movie where I might recommend leaving ten minutes before the end.
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    We’ve Gotta Cool It With the Amy Adams Oscar StuffNightbitch is perfectly acceptable commercial cinema and shouldn’t suffer because it won’t win Amy Adams her long-awaited Oscar.
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    Nightbitch Is More of an Idea Than a MovieThe overarching meditative quality of Nightbitch is at once its most intriguing element and its greatest shortcoming.
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    Ron Howard Has Finally Lost His MindWith his new film, Eden, the Hollywood stalwart lets the craziness take over, to his eternal credit.
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    This Might Be the Most Exciting Year for Best Animated Features at the OscarsIt’s a battle where movies are getting awards buzz not just in the animation category but in Best Picture as well.
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    Thank the Cinema Gods, Mike Leigh Is BackHard Truths might be his funniest film in a long time, but as always, it’s the kind of laughter that comes with unnerving inevitabilities.
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    His Netflix Deal Is Over. Can Mike Flanagan Save Theatrical Cinema Now?If the raucous TIFF premiere of his new Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck is any indication, this movie deserves to be in multiplexes.
  18. minding her business
    Jennifer Lopez
    J.Lo Was an Unstoppable Force of Promo at TIFFProducer Ben Affleck didn’t show up for their movie’s premiere (but producer Matt Damon did).
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    It Sure Is Nice to Have Ben Stiller BackThe raucous Nutcrackers upholds Stiller’s place as one of American cinema’s funnier objects of humiliation.
  20. festival season
    The 18 Movies We’re Most Excited to See at Venice and TIFFTwo major film festivals are happening over the next two weeks in Venice and Toronto, setting the film world’s agenda for the rest of the year.
  21. the festival circuit
    Emilia Pérez, Cannes-Winning Trans Musical Melodrama, Set for TIFFIt garnered Emmy nominee Selena Gomez a Cannes Award.