All Special Presentations articles 172h4o
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‘The Assessment’: Toronto Review 4n1n42
Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander head this dystopian drama in which parenthood really is a test
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‘Bring Them Down’: Toronto Review 592e4i
Christopher Abbott and Barry Koeghan embark on a dangerous rivalry in this rural-Ireland set debut
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‘Shell’: Toronto Review 396x1w
Elisabeth Moss and Kate Hudson will do anything to stay beautiful in Max Minghella’s body horror
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‘Relay’: Toronto Review 6v5c4l
Riz Ahmed and Lily James star in David Mackenzie’s cool whistleblowing drama
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‘Heretic’: Toronto Review 5f4l4z
Hugh Grant plays a game of cat-and-mouse with two young Mormon missionaries in this verbose A24 chiller
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‘Conclave’: Toronto Review 4f3r2q
Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow jostle for the Vatican’s top job in this pulpy Robert Harris adaptation
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‘On Swift Horses’: Toronto Review 1j4e12
Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones push against traditional boundaries in this slow-burn 1950s-set noir-western
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‘Nightbitch’: Toronto Review 5m2a2z
Amy Adams takes a walk on the wild side in Marielle Heller’s story of a woman who is going to the dogs
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‘The Last Showgirl’: Toronto Review 5j3m34
Pamela Anderson enters the awards conversation as an ageing Vegas showgirl in Gia Coppola’s third feature
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‘We Live In Time’: Toronto Review 215v3h
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield headline John Crowley’s time-hopping relationship tearjerker
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‘Sharp Corner’: Toronto Review 1a6m6
Ben Foster teams up with ’Blackbird’ director Jason Buxton to deliver this portrait of a ‘compelling non-entity’
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‘The End’: Toronto Review 31251v
Joshua Oppenheimer’s first drama is a singular musical which details how one family es through the end of the world
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‘The Salt Path’: Toronto Review q521j
Marianne Elliott’s faltering move to the big screen stars Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson
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‘A Difficult Year’: Toronto Review 4i1761
This French social satire sees two lost souls find some purpose in an environmental action group
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‘Wildcat’: Toronto Review 5h5f6q
Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya Hawke as Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor
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‘Fingernails’: Toronto Review 3z5bh
Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed fight the laws of attraction in this near-future set drama in which love is a science
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‘The Burial’: Toronto Review 3g2k2k
Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones are the odd couple of flashy lawyer and small town client in this mid-90s set crowdpleaser
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‘The Holdovers’: Toronto Review 302p2x
Alexander Payne reunites with his ‘Sideways’ star Paul Giamatti for this wistful 1970-set character study
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‘Pain Hustlers’: Toronto Review 6g3n6q
Emily Blunt shines in this otherwise muted true-life tale of a corrupt American pharmaceutical company
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‘The Critic’: Toronto Review 1g3v66
Ian McKellen is a gloriously acerbic 1930s theatre critic in a film that proves too genteel for its central character