All Gala Presentations articles
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Reviews‘Babies’ review: Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick face a big decision in likable LA crowdpleaser
Issa Rae and David Strathairn also star in Lauren Miller Rogen’s Toronto Gala Presentation premiere
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Reviews‘Up Against It’ review: Trudie Styler’s aggressively sentimental tearjerker fails to make the most of stars Antonio Banderas and Eva Birthistle
Toronto Gala Presentation title takes a glossy approach to its thorny material
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Reviews‘The Assassin(s)’ review: Hur Jin-ho turns 1974 assassination attempt on South Korean president into gripping, propulsive thriller
Yoo Hai-jin, Park Hae-il and Lee Min-ho star in the director’s follow-up to ’A Normal Family’
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Reviews‘Being Heumann’ review: Ruth Madeley impresses as US disability advocate Judy Heumann in broad period drama
Sian Heder follows CODA with cutesy dramatisation of Heumann’s 1977 San Francisco sit-in which opens Toronto
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Reviews‘Glenrothan’ review: Actor Brian Cox’s directorial debut is overworked Scottish family drama
Cox also stars opposite Alan Cumming in cliched tale of two estranged brothers reuniting
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Reviews‘Nuremberg’ review: Russell Crowe is Nazi officer Hermann Goring in earnest courtroom drama
James Vanderbilt’s second feature dramatises Goring’s 1940s trial and also stars Rami Malek and Michael Shannon
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Reviews‘Hamnet’ review: Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal power Chloe Zhao’s potent Shakespeare drama
‘The Rider’ and ‘Nomadland’ director confidently adapts Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about the genesis of ‘Hamlet’
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Reviews‘Eternity’ review: Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner head thin afterlife romcom
Director David Freyne’s soulless Toronto title is lifted by sparky supporting performances from Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early
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Reviews‘Roofman’ review: Channing Tatum charms in real-life crime caper from Derek Cianfrance
Kirsten Dunst also stars in ’Blue Valentine’ director’s conventional spin on quirky tale
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Reviews‘Good Fortune’ review: Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves join director-star Aziz Ansari in impressive debut
Sandra Oh and Keke Palmer round out the cast for Ansari’s body-swap comedy, which premieres in Toronto
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Reviews‘Fuze’ review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson heads rote London-set action thriller from David Mackenzie
Mechanical offering from ‘Animal Kingdom’ director sees Taylor-Johnson as a bomb expert embroiled in a bank robbery
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Reviews‘The Choral’ review: Ralph Fiennes is a provincial choir master in gentle wartime drama
Nicholas Hytner directs and Alan Bennett scripts this Toronto title which is set in Yorkshire during the First World War
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Reviews‘John Candy: I Like Me’ review: Colin Hanks doc pays warm tribute to Canadian comedy legend
Toronto’s opening film features a host of luminaries including Tom Hanks, Bill Murray and Catherine O’Hara
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FeaturesToronto 2025 preview: Screen’s guide to the Gala titles
Toronto International Film Festival runs September 4-14.
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Reviews‘The Fire Inside’: Toronto Review
Barry Jenkins scripts cinematographer-turned-director Rachel Morrison’s dynamic portrait of Black female boxer Claressa Shields
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Reviews‘Harbin’: Toronto Review
Hyun Bin is a soldier embarking on a suicidal mission in early 20th century Korea in Woon Min-ho’s stylish period actioner
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Reviews‘The Return’: Toronto Review
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for this restrained retelling of Homer’s Odyssey
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Reviews‘Better Man’: Toronto Review
Robbie Williams gets an inventive biopic treatment by The Greatest Showman’s Michael Gracey
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Reviews‘Unstoppable’: Toronto Review
Jharrel Jerome plays real-life wrestler Anthony Robles in William Goldberg’s solid directorial debut