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All Special Presentations articles
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Reviews‘The Captive’ review: Alejandro Amenabar tackles formative years of Spanish author Cervantes
Newcomer Julio Pena Fernandez plays the Spanish writer in packed historical epic
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Reviews‘Steal Away’ review: Clement Virgo’s ambitious afrofuturist thriller explores sexual awakening
The Canadian director’s genre-bending drama stars Angourie Rice and Mallori Johnson
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Reviews‘& Sons’ review: Bill Nighy’s disheveled alcoholic author heads intriguing family drama
Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn and George MacKay also star in Pablo Trapero’s English-language feature debut
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Reviews‘Ballad Of A Small Player’ review: Colin Farrell is on a losing streak in Edward Berger’s gambling drama
Tilda Swinton also stars in the director’s Macao-set follow up to ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ and ‘Conclave’
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Reviews‘Couture’ review: Angelina Jolie is a tour de force in Alice Winocour’s Paris fashion drama
Jolie stars as a Paris Fashion Week filmmaker battling cancer in intricate Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘The Christophers’ review: Steven Soderbergh’s witty chamber piece stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel
The director’s chatty, catty two-hander premieres in Toronto
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Reviews‘Sacrifice’ review: Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy head muddled Romain Gavras eco thriller
Vincent Cassel and Salma Hayek Pinault join the starry cast of Gavras’s ‘Athena’ follow-up
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Reviews‘Hedda’ review: Tessa Thompson crackles at the heart of Nia DaCosta’s uneven Ibsen adaptation
DaCosta updates Henrik Ibsen’s classic play ’Hedda Gabler’ to a modern dinner party setting
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Reviews‘Good News’ review: Byun Sung-hyun turns 1970 hijacking into satirical Netflix thriller
Sul Kyung-gu stars in the ‘Kill Boksoon’ director’s kinetic dramatisation of the hijacking of Japanese Airlines Flight 351
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Reviews‘Rental Family’ review: Brendan Fraser shines as a lost soul seeking connection in Tokyo-set drama
Director Hikari follows up her 2019 debut ‘37 Seconds’ with tale of American actor adrift in Japan
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Reviews'California Schemin'' review: James McAvoy directorial debut is engaging real-life Scottish rap tale
McAvoy tells the true story of two Dundee rappers who pretended to be American duo Silibil N’ Brains
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Reviews‘Bad Apples’ review: Saoirse Ronan is a teacher driven to extremes in nervy UK thriller
Swedish director Jonatan Etzler makes his English-language debut with adaptation of Danish novel
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Reviews‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ review: Daniel Craig returns in crowd-pleasing sequel
Craig is joined by an all-star cast including Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Mila Kunis for Rian Johnson’s third ’Knives Out’ instalment
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Reviews‘Christy’ review: Sydney Sweeney is a knockout in David Michôd’s broad boxing biopic
Toronto premiere follows the tumultous life of boxer Christy Martin and her abusive trainer husband
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Reviews‘The Ugly’ review: A murder mystery links past and present in Yeon Sang-ho’s calibrated thriller
‘Train To Busan’ director’s Toronto premiere stars Park Jeong-min as a man searching for his mother’s killer
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Reviews‘The Lost Bus’ review: Paul Greengrass teams with Matthew McConaughey for uneven California wildfire drama
America Ferrera also stars in intense Apple TV+ disaster movie which premieres in Toronto
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FeaturesToronto 2025 preview: Screen’s guide to the Special Presentations
Toronto International Film Festival runs September 4-14.
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Reviews‘The Assessment’: Toronto Review
Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander head this dystopian drama in which parenthood really is a test
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Reviews‘Bring Them Down’: Toronto Review
Christopher Abbott and Barry Koeghan embark on a dangerous rivalry in this rural-Ireland set debut
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Reviews‘Shell’: Toronto Review
Elisabeth Moss and Kate Hudson will do anything to stay beautiful in Max Minghella’s body horror