All Special Presentations articles
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‘A Difficult Year’: Toronto Review
This French social satire sees two lost souls find some purpose in an environmental action group
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‘Wildcat’: Toronto Review
Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya Hawke as Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor
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‘Fingernails’: Toronto Review
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
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
Alexander Payne reunites with his ‘Sideways’ star Paul Giamatti for this wistful 1970-set character study
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‘Pain Hustlers’: Toronto Review
Emily Blunt shines in this otherwise muted true-life tale of a corrupt American pharmaceutical company
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‘The Critic’: Toronto Review
Ian McKellan is a gloriously acerbic 1930s theatre critic in a film that proves too genteel for its central character
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‘Rustin’: Toronto Review
Colman Domingo plays the man behind the March on Washington - who found himself sidelined because he was gay
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‘In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon’: Toronto Review
Alex Gibney documents the work of Paul Simon in this extensive tour guided by the musician himself
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‘Together 99’: Toronto Review
Lukas Moodysson presents a tender sequel to his 2000 portrait of a Stockholm commune
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‘Close To You’: Toronto Review
Trans actor Elliot Page brings his personal experiences to this tale of strained family relationships
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‘His Three Daughters’: Toronto Review
Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen are Azazel Jacobs’ three sisters gathered for the death of their father in a New York Apartment
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‘Quiz Lady’: Toronto Review
Awkwafina and Sandra Oh team up for a road trip to a game show for director Jessica Yu
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‘One Life’: Toronto Review
Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn star in this portrait of Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from Prague during the war
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‘Mother, Couch’: Toronto Review
Ewan McGregor is driven to distraction by his defiant mother in this off-kilter adaptation of the Swedish novel
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‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Toronto Review
Viggo Mortensen’s second as director is a Western starring Vicky Krieps which marks an ambitious step up in scope
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‘Woman Of The Hour’: Toronto Review
‘A tremendous directorial debut’ from Anna Kendrick in this true-life serial killer drama which takes unexpected twists and turns
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‘American Fiction’: Toronto Review
Cord Jefferson’s impressive debut is a portrait of a frustrated Black author played with relish by Jeffrey Wright
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‘Shoshana’: Toronto Review
Michael Winterbottom carefully recreates Tel Aviv in the 1930s, where much of the tensions that affect Israel today are starting to bubble over
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‘Reptile’: Toronto Review
Benicio del Toro impresses in an otherwise lacklustre Netflix cop drama