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Toronto Film Festival 2024: Movie Scorecard
See every movie that played at TIFF that got enough reviews for a Tomatometer, including resplendent The Wild Robot, future romance All of You, the launching of a comedy institution in Saturday Night, Orlando Bloom sports drama The Cut, Hugh Grant horror Heretic.
#1
Adjusted Score: 102662%
Critics Consensus: Capturing the here and now of modern India with the spontaneity of a candid photograph, All We Imagine as Light is a lustrous achievement that announces Payal Kapadia as an essential filmmaker.
Synopsis: The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who...
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#2
Adjusted Score: 105605%
Critics Consensus: Endearing and heartfelt, Will & Harper is an ode and testament to long-lasting love, acceptance and evolution within a friendship.
Synopsis: Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his dear friend of...
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#3
Adjusted Score: 101154%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral...
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#4
Adjusted Score: 101298%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other...
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#5
Adjusted Score: 109484%
Critics Consensus: A simple tale told with great sophistication, The Wild Robot is wondrous entertainment that dazzles the eye while filling your heart to the brim.
Synopsis: The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot--ROZZUM unit 7134, "Roz" for short -- that is shipwrecked on an...
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#6
Adjusted Score: 96794%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin, set in China, from the early 2000s...
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#7
Adjusted Score: 98154%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family...
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#8
Adjusted Score: 100229%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has...
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#9
Adjusted Score: 100292%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained...
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#10
Adjusted Score: 100439%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Remo Manfredini is a legendary jockey, but his self-destructive behaviour is beginning to outshine his talent and threaten his relationship...
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#11
Adjusted Score: 100079%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of...
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#12
Adjusted Score: 90508%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#13
Adjusted Score: 100078%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners,...
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#14
Adjusted Score: 100291%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#15
Adjusted Score: 100364%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation,...
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#16
Adjusted Score: 79231%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their...
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#17
Adjusted Score: 93807%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim (Kim Minhee), an artist and lecturer at a...
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#18
Adjusted Score: 93525%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie's life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach...
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#19
Adjusted Score: 86798%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a...
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#20
Adjusted Score: 85905%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Meet BJ (Anderson .Paak), a fish-out-of-water musician on the search for stardom carrying a bruised heart from a complicated past...
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#21
Adjusted Score: 71806%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In YOUTH (HARD TIMES), individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming ever more dramatic as the seasons...
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#22
Adjusted Score: 64728%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only...
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#23
Adjusted Score: 50319%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding...
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#24
Adjusted Score: 100376%
Critics Consensus: Structurally beautiful and suffused with Adrien Brody's soulful performance, writer-director Brady Corbet's immaculately designed The Brutalist is a towering tribute to the immigrant experience.
Synopsis: When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of...
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#25
Adjusted Score: 103318%
Critics Consensus: Another marvelous chronicle of America's strivers by writer-director Sean Baker given some extra pizzazz by Mikey Madison's brassy performance, Anora is a romantic drama on the bleeding edge.
Synopsis: Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries...
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#26
Adjusted Score: 93156%
Critics Consensus: Carrying off papal pulp with immaculate execution and career-highlight work from Ralph Fiennes, Conclave is a godsend for audiences who crave intelligent entertainment.
Synopsis: CONCLAVE follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events -- selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes)...
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#27
Adjusted Score: 98152%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), DAHOMEY is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives...
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#28
Adjusted Score: 92089%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same...
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#29
Adjusted Score: 94449%
Critics Consensus: Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson memorably smolder together in Babygirl, with writer-director Halina Reijn's clinical gaze keeping this sexually frank thriller more provocative than prurient.
Synopsis: A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much...
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#30
Adjusted Score: 93937%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles...
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#31
Adjusted Score: 95507%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art...
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#32
Adjusted Score: 89292%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#33
Adjusted Score: 96723%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: THE FIRE INSIDE is the inspirational true story of Claressa Shields, arguably the greatest female boxer of all time. Claressa,...
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#34
Adjusted Score: 91229%
Critics Consensus: A highly unusual twist on the documentary format that somehow works seamlessly, this kaleidoscopic overview of Pharrell Williams' career is a lively testament to the power of self-belief.
Synopsis: PIECE BY PIECE is a unique cinematic experience that invites audiences on a vibrant journey through the life of cultural...
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#35
Adjusted Score: 95507%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Set in a future world devastated by climate change, The Assessment follows a couple who must pass a test before...
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#36
Adjusted Score: 94291%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of an OBGYN, Nina, come under scrutiny amid rumors that...
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#37
Adjusted Score: 80240%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: On a Japanese island, life revolves around the changing seasons. Winter is time for ice hockey at school, but Takuya...
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#38
Adjusted Score: 94944%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof's award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into...
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#39
Adjusted Score: 85784%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His...
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#40
Adjusted Score: 111166%
Critics Consensus: Audaciously gross, wickedly clever, and possibly Demi Moore's finest hour, The Substance is a gasp-inducing feat from writer-director Coralie Fargeat.
Synopsis: Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this...
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#41
Adjusted Score: 83373%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#42
Adjusted Score: 92304%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Karoline (Vic Carmen Sonne), a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WWI Copenhagen. When she finds herself...
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#43
Adjusted Score: 64616%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: 1944. In Vermiglio, a mountain village where the war is a distant but omnipresent horizon, the arrival of Pietro, a...
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#44
Adjusted Score: 71594%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Abandoned as a child, Jack travels to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother Elizabeth. There...
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#45
Adjusted Score: 89169%
Critics Consensus: Karla Sofía Gascón is Emilia Perez in a swaggering musical crime thriller of genre-bending fascination that is also an unapologetically trans story.
Synopsis: From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song...
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#46
Adjusted Score: 91946%
Critics Consensus: A slow-burning spectral thriller, Presence reaffirms that Soderbergh plays with form as deftly as he flits between genres.
Synopsis: A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they're not alone....
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#47
Adjusted Score: 86800%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#48
Adjusted Score: 87583%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: For over a year, a series of bold daylight bank robberies and armored car heists leaves law enforcement baffled and...
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#49
Adjusted Score: 93939%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#50
Adjusted Score: 94523%
Critics Consensus: Hugh Grant has infectious fun playing against type in Heretic, a religious horror that preaches the gospel of cerebral chills over cheap shocks.
Synopsis: Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by...
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#51
Adjusted Score: 88794%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she...
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#52
Adjusted Score: 88724%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Better Man is based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop...
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#53
Adjusted Score: 89090%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Almut (Florence Pugh) and Tobias (Andrew Garfield) are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots...
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#54
Adjusted Score: 82221%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#55
Adjusted Score: 85605%
Critics Consensus: Jazzed up by an excellent ensemble that captures the essence if not the exact likeness of SNL's original cast and crew, Saturday Night is a frenetic and nostalgic celebration of one of showbiz's most auspicious debuts.
Synopsis: At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television -- and culture --...
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#56
Adjusted Score: 86580%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When Mara (Deragh Campbell), a young creative writing professor, reunites with Matt (Matt Johnson), a charismatic, free-spirited author from her...
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#57
Adjusted Score: 83440%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at...
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#58
Adjusted Score: 71633%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: After 20 years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king finds much has...
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#59
Adjusted Score: 81307%
Critics Consensus: A phantasmagorical distillation of William S. Burroughs' preoccupations that's by turns meandering and vital, Queer marks one of Daniel Craig's most sterling performances yet.
Synopsis: In 1950s Mexico City, WILLIAM LEE, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small...
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#60
Adjusted Score: 63939%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Based on two wildly different takes of the same story, Eden explores one of the longest-standing and most compelling human...
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#61
Adjusted Score: 76589%
Critics Consensus: Director Andrea Arnold strikes a coming-of-age chord through Nykiya Adams' moving performance, marrying fantasy and reality to the dizzying end.
Synopsis: 12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn't have...
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#62
Adjusted Score: 67447%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A woman (Amy Adams) pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom seeking a new chapter in her life and...
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#63
Adjusted Score: 73579%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Unstoppable is the inspiring true story of Anthony Robles (Jharrel Jerome) who was born with one leg but whose indomitable...
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#64
Adjusted Score: 69149%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the...
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#65
Adjusted Score: 65435%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. In Athina Rachel Tsangari's...
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#66
Adjusted Score: 75517%
Critics Consensus: Ruminating on the love within loss, The Shrouds is a personal and peculiar examination of grief by director David Cronenberg.
#67
Adjusted Score: 73079%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In the jungle of Colombia, Pepe, a young Hippo was killed. Between sounds and bellows, his ghost narrates his story,...
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#68
Adjusted Score: 67942%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A famed Canadian documentary filmmaker, gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth...
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#69
Adjusted Score: 67297%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Muriel and her husband Lee are beginning a bright new life in California when he returns from the Korean War....
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#70
Adjusted Score: 71005%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When Nicolas is invited to a clinical trial allowing participants to control their dreams, he takes the plunge in hopes...
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#71
Adjusted Score: 52513%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#72
Adjusted Score: 65085%
Critics Consensus: More of a creative manifesto than a cogent narrative feature, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is an overstuffed opus that's equal parts stimulating and slapdash.
Synopsis: MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict...
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#73
Adjusted Score: 33518%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#74
Adjusted Score: 28414%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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