TIFF 2017 Scorecard
27%
Critics Consensus: A disappointing misfire for director George Clooney, Suburbicon attempts to juggle social satire, racial commentary, and murder mystery -- and ends up making a mess of all three.
Synopsis: Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic, suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns -- the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac, Glenn Fleshler
Directed By: George Clooney
75%
Critics Consensus: In the Fade proves Diane Kruger is more than up to the task of carrying a movie -- even if the end result doesn't quite live up to her remarkable work.
Synopsis: Katja's life falls apart in the blink of an eye when two neo-Nazis kill her husband and 6-year-old son in a bomb attack. Her quest... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Johannes Krisch, Samia Muriel Chancrin
Directed By: Fatih Akin
42%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When a school principal gets a terminal diagnosis, his marriage begins to fall apart.
Starring: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Trine Dyrholm, Michael Nyqvist, Thomas Guldberg Madsen
Directed By: Peter Schønau Fog
33%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A restless photographer leaves her family to find herself and takes up deep-sea diving.
Starring: Gilles Lellouche, María Valverde, Ibrahim Ahmed, Marie Denarnaud
Directed By: Mélanie Laurent
66%
Critics Consensus: It'll be best enjoyed by audiences with a high tolerance for colorful whimsy, but Unicorn Store is easy to like -- and it suggests Brie Larson has a future behind the camera.
Synopsis: A woman receives a mysterious invitation that could fulfill a childhood dream.
Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Joan Cusack, Bradley Whitford
Directed By: Brie Larson
40%
Critics Consensus: Mary Shelley smooths out its subject's fascinating life and fails to communicate the spark of her classic work, undermining fine period detail and a solid Elle Fanning performance.
Synopsis: Mary Wollstonecraft's family disapproves when she and poet Percy Shelley announce their love for each other. The family is horrified when it finds that the... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Tom Sturridge
Directed By: Haifaa Al-Mansour
33%
Critics Consensus: Loving Pablo bungles its seemingly cinematic real-life story -- and a pair of talented stars -- in producing a lurid biopic that adds nothing to the Escobar subgenre.
Synopsis: In the early 1980s, Colombian journalist Virginia Vallejo begins a tumultuous love affair with Pablo Escobar -- the world's most feared drug lord.
Starring: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Julieth Restrepo
Directed By: Fernando León de Aranoa
37%
Critics Consensus: Melodramatic and overstuffed, Racer and the Jailbird mainly serves as proof that Matthias Schoenaerts and Adèle Exarchopoulos deserve to reunite in a better movie.
Synopsis: Loyalties are tested when a gangster and race car driver fall in love.
Starring: Matthias Schoenaerts, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Eric de Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux
Directed By: Michaël R. Roskam
19%
Critics Consensus: While Euphoria's aims are admirable, it's musings on life and death are oddly hollow.
Synopsis: Two estranged sisters reconnect when one suggests traveling to a mysterious and remote castle.
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Eva Green, Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance
Directed By: Lisa Langseth
10%
Critics Consensus: Kings has good intentions, a talented cast, and the basis for an incredible fact-based story; unfortunately, they don't amount to much more than a missed opportunity.
Synopsis: Millie is a hardworking, tough and protective Los Angeles single mother with an affection for homeless children. Her neighbor Obie is the local loose cannon... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Halle Berry, Daniel Craig, Lamar Johnson, Kaalan Walker
Directed By: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
