
TIFF 2016 Tomatometer Scores
Another Toronto International Film Festival draws to a close and all its attendant major movies (Arrival, La La Land, A Monster Calls) are fleeing the border as we speak, soon to take residence in multiplexes and art house screens alike across the globe. Need a list on what to keep an eye out for? Here’s every TIFF 2016 movie that generated enough reviews and interest for individual Tomatometers! —Alex Vo
96%
Critics Consensus: After the Storm crosses cultural lines to offer timeless observations about parental responsibilities, personal bonds, and the capacity for forgiveness.
Synopsis: A dissolute private detective (Hiroshi Abe) attempts to reconnect with his distrustful family following the death of his father.
Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Kirin Kiki, Taiyô Yoshizawa
Directed By: Hirokazu Koreeda
30%
Critics Consensus: All I See Is You hints at a number of intriguing questions with its premise, but they dissolve in a stylish yet empty psychodrama that fails to connect.
Synopsis: Gina is a beautiful young woman who's still haunted by the accident that took her sight years earlier. Living in Bangkok with her husband, James,... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Blake Lively, Jason Clarke, Ahna O'Reilly, Yvonne Strahovski
Directed By: Marc Forster
82%
Critics Consensus: Amanda Knox honors its subject with an absorbing -- if slightly incomplete -- look at the details and troubling implications of her arrest and subsequent fight for freedom.
Synopsis: The trial, conviction and acquittal of Amanda Knox for the murder of an exchange student in Italy.
Starring: Amanda Knox, Curt Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, Giuliano Mignini
Directed By: Brian McGinn, Rod Blackhurst
79%
Critics Consensus: American Honey offers a refreshingly unconventional take on the coming-of-age drama whose narrative risks add up to a rewarding experience even if they don't all pay off.
Synopsis: Star (Sasha Lane), an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a traveling sales crew that drives across the American Midwest selling subscriptions... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Sasha Lane, Riley Keough, Shia LaBeouf, McCaul Lombardi
Directed By: Andrea Arnold
97%
Critics Consensus: Led by a powerful performance from Sônia Braga, Aquarius uses a conflict between a tenant and developers to take an insightful look at the relationship between space and identity.
Synopsis: Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, vows to live in her apartment until she dies after a developer buys all of the units... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Sônia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão
Directed By: Kleber Mendonça Filho
94%
Critics Consensus: Arrival delivers a must-see experience for fans of thinking person's sci-fi that anchors its heady themes with genuinely affecting emotion and a terrific performance from Amy Adams.
Synopsis: Linguistics professor Louise Banks leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
45%
Critics Consensus: The Bad Batch has its moments, but it's too thinly written and self-indulgent to justify its length or compensate for its slow narrative drift.
Synopsis: Arlen is abandoned in a Texas wasteland that is fenced off from civilization. While trying to navigate the unforgiving landscape, Arlen is captured by a... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, Jayda Fink
Directed By: Ana Lily Amirpour
80%
Critics Consensus: Barry opens a speculative window into a future president's formative college years, offering a flawed yet compelling glimpse of American history in the making.
Synopsis: Barack Obama arrives in New York in the fall of 1981 for his junior year at Columbia University. He struggles to stay connected to his... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Devon Terrell, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ashley Judd, Jenna Elfman
Directed By: Vikram Gandhi
55%
Critics Consensus: The Belko Experiment offers a few moments of lurid fun for genre enthusiasts, but lacks enough subversive smarts to consistently engage once the carnage kicks in.
Synopsis: An ordinary day at the office becomes a horrific quest for survival when 80 employees at the Belko Corp. in Bogotá, Colombia, learn that they... View Full Synopsis
Starring: John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley
Directed By: Greg McLean
72%
Critics Consensus: The Birth of a Nation overpowers its narrative flaws and uneven execution through sheer conviction, rising on Nate Parker's assured direction and the strength of its vital message.
Synopsis: Nat Turner is an enslaved Baptist preacher who lives on a Virginia plantation owned by Samuel Turner. With rumors of insurrection in the air, a... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Junior, Colman Domingo
Directed By: Nate Parker
38%
Critics Consensus: Blair Witch doles out a handful of effective scares, but aside from a few new twists, it mainly offers a belated rehash of the original -- and far more memorable -- first film.
Synopsis: A young man and his friends venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mystery surrounding his missing sister. Many believe her... View Full Synopsis
Starring: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott
Directed By: Adam Wingard
70%
Critics Consensus: Bleed for This rises on the strength of Miles Teller's starring performance to deliver a solid fact-based boxing drama that takes a few genre clichés on the chin but keeps on coming.
Synopsis: Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Pazienza (Miles Teller), a local Providence boxer, shoots to stardom after winning two world title fights. After a near-fatal car accident... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal, Ciarán Hinds
Directed By: Ben Younger
91%
Critics Consensus: Blue Jay's song will warm the soul of any hopeless romantic who loves trips down memory lane, impromptu dance scenes, and naturally performed two-handers.
Synopsis: Former high school sweethearts Jim and Amanda have been out of touch for more than 20 years -- but they run into each other at... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Mark Duplass, Sarah Paulson
Directed By: Alex Lehmann
13%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post, became plagued by voices in her head and seizures. As weeks progress and Susannah quickly... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Thomas Mann, Jenny Slate, Richard Armitage
Directed By: Gerard Barrett
45%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A frontier woman turns fugitive when she is wrongly accused of a crime she didn't commit and is hunted by a vengeful preacher.
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Emilia Jones, Kit Harington
Directed By: Martin Koolhoven



