Reviews of All Films Screened at Toronto Film Festival TIFF 2024

Aspect Toronto International Film Festival is setting out, Hollywood Reporter From biopics to documentaries, gripping epics to intimate character studies, tear-jerking dramas to laugh-out-loud comedies, critics share their thoughts on this year’s movies.

Several of this year’s list have premiered at other festivals throughout the year. For those curious about the best TIFF Some of the calendar’s highlights – but not all – include the Steven Soderbergh ghost story PresenceDavid Rooney’s Icelandic grief drama hailed as ‘masterfully crafted’ at Sundance When Light BreaksLovia Gyarkye’s literary adaptation, described at Cannes as “impossible to shake” Let’s not go to the dogs tonightPraised for her “amazing” performance as the child Caryn James at the center of Telluride.

The programme also includes a number of highly anticipated world premieres, including David Gordon Green’s NutcrackerMarielle Heller Night whore and Angelina Jolie Bloodlessamong many, among many. Also, the feature filmmaking debuts of names like TV director Andrew DeYoung (Friendship), commercial and music video director Fleur Fortuné (Evaluation) and actress Rebel Wilson (Deb).

But perhaps most exciting this year, and every year, is the unpredictable thrill of discovery: the possibility that any film we sit down with could become a lifelong favorite, introducing us to a brand new talent, making us look at the world in a way we’d never considered before. We hope you’ll join us as we explore this year’s TIFF titles — keep an eye on this space as we continue to update with new reviews published throughout the festival.

Everything We Dream of as Light
Sideshow/Janus; directed by Payal Kapadia; 110 minutes

Anora
Neon; Director: Sean Baker; 138 minutes

April
Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili; 134 minutes

Baby Girl
A24; directed by Halina Reijn; 114 minutes

Battlefield
Still in the works for US distribution; directed by Gianni Amelio; 103 minutes

Better Man
Paramount; dir. Michael Gracey; 134 minutes

Bird
MUBI; directed by Andrea Arnold; 119 minutes

Brutalism
Focus; Director: Brady Corbet; 215 minutes

Caught by the Tides
Sideshow/Janus; directed by Jia Zhang-Ke; 111 minutes

Cloudy
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa; 124 minutes

Council
Focus; directed by Edward Berger; 120 minutes

Dahomey
MUBI; Director: Mati Diop; 68 minutes

The cursed ones
Vertical Entertainment; director Roberto Minervini; 88 minutes

Diciannove
Still in the works for US distribution; directed by Giovanni Tortorici; 109 minutes

Disclaimer
Apple; directed by Alfonso Cuaron; minutes

Let’s not go to the dogs tonight
Still seeking US distribution; Embeth Davidtz directs; 98 minutes

Emilia Perez
Netflix; directed by Jacques Audiard; 130 minutes

Last
Neon; directed by Joshua Oppenheimer; 148 minutes

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Magnolia Pictures; director Raoul Peck; 105 minutes

Flow
Sideshow/Janus; director Gints Zilbalodis; 86 minutes

Friend
Still in the works for US distribution; directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel; 123 minutes

Girl with a Needle
MUBI; director Magnus von Horn; 115 minutes

Grand Tour
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Miguel Gomes; 129 minutes

Happy ending
Metrograph; directed by Neo Sora; 113 minutes

Harvest
MUBI; director Athina Rachel Tsangari; 133 minutes

I’m Still Here
Sony Classics; directed by Walter Salles; 137 minutes

Julie Keeps Quiet
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Leonardo van Dijl; 103 minutes

Kill the jockey
Still in the works for US distribution; directed by Luis Ortega; 96 minutes

Megalopolis
Lionsgate; dir. Francis Ford Coppola; 138 minutes

Memoirs of a Snail
IFC; directed by Adam Elliot; 94 minutes

Stinginess
Janus; directed by Alain Guiraudie; 102 minutes

My Sun
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Hiroshi Okuyama; 90 minutes

No Other Land
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor; 96 minutes

Oh, Canada
Kino Lorber; director Paul Schrader; 95 minutes

On Being a Guinea Fowl
A24; Director: Rungano Nyoni; 95 minutes

Order
Vertical Entertainment; directed by Justin Kurzel; 116 minutes

Pepe
Still seeking US distribution; Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias directs; 122 minutes

Piano Lesson
Netflix; director Malcolm Washington; 125 minutes

Piecemeal
Focus; directed by Morgan Neville; 93 minutes

Presence
Neon; dir. Steven Soderbergh; 85 minutes

Queer
A24; dir. Luca Guadagnino; 135 minutes

Next Room
Sony Classics; dir. Pedro Almodóvar; 107 minutes

Rumors
Bleecker Street; Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson; 118 minutes

Santosh
Metrograph; directed by Sandhya Suri; 120 minutes

Saturday Night
Sony; dir. Jason Reitman; 103 minutes

The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Neon; Director: Mohammad Rasoulof; 168 minutes

Shrouds
Still seeking US distribution; directed by David Cronenberg; 119 minutes

The Story of Solomon
Still in the works for US distribution; directed by Boris Lojkine; 102 minutes

Article
MUBI; directed by Coralie Fargeat; 140 minutes

Three Friends
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Emmanuel Mouret; 117 minutes

To an Unknown Country
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Mahdi Fleifel; 105 minutes

Universal Language
Oscilloscope; directed by Matthew Rankin; 89 minutes

Red pepper
Still in the works for US distribution; directed by Maura Delpero; 116 minutes

The Village Next to Heaven
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Mo Harawe; 133 minutes

When Light Breaks
Still seeking US distribution; directed by Runar Runarsson; 80 minutes

Will and Harper
Netflix; Director Josh Greenbaum; 114 minutes