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Toronto Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
By Pete Hammond, Damon Wise and Matthew Carey,
16 hours ago
The Toronto Film Festival kicked off September 5 with a multi-move opening night that included David Gordon Green’s family comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller. It kicked off a slate of world premieres and buzzy movies across 11 days for the 49th edition of one of North America’s biggest film festivals.
Other key titles making their debuts in Toronto include The Luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser, the Amy Adams-starring Nightbitch , theatre guru Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path , DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot and Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck .
Documentaries set to make a splash include Elton John: Never Too Late and Paul Anka: His Way .
Click below to read Deadline’s reviews from the ground in Toronto and keep checking back as we add more. The festival wraps September 15.
Section: Discovery Director-screenwriter: Durga Chew Bose Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Claes Bang, Lily McInerny, Nailia Harzoune, Aliocha Schneider, Nathalie Richard Deadline’s takeaway: This in debuting Montreal-based director and screenwriter Durga Chew Bose‘s hands feels more true to Françoise Sagan’s novel and becomes a more complex tale of the nature of female relationships, the mysteries within and their winding paths.
Section: Special Presentations Director: Samir Oliveros Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, Shamier Anderson, David Strathairn, Maisie Williams, Patti Harrison, Johnny Knoxville, Haley Bennett, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Brian Geraghty, Lilli Kay, James Wolk Deadline’s takeaway: With Hauser in charge, this whole scenario keeps us engaged thanks to the actor’s ability to breathe some humanity into these oddball characters. You can see why he couldn’t resist this one.
Section: Gala Presentations Director: David Gordon Green Cast: Ben Stiller, Linda Cardellini, Tim Heidecker, Edi Patterson, Toby Huss, Homer Janson, Ulysses Janson, Atlas Janson, Arlo Janson Deadline’s takeaway: This is the kind of movie Hollywood used to deliver all the time but has clearly forgotten how to make — until now. Among the inspirations for director David Gordon Green were The Bad News Bears , Six Pack , Uncle Buck and Overboard . You might expect John Hughes was back from the dead, along with this genre.
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