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Bill Skarsgård's Underseen Action Film
Bill Skarsgård's revenge film almost missed the John Wick spotlight.
ScreenRant · 1m
Half Review: Samjad's Fast Vampire Horror
Samjad's fast-paced Indian vampire horror movie 'Half' impresses at TIFF with its action-packed revenge thriller.
Deadline · 1m
Breakout Talents 2026 Fall Festivals
Seven actors and actresses shine at 2026 fall film festivals.
IndieWire · 1m
Being Heumann Trailer
Siân Heder's 'CODA' director makes biopic about disability rights activist Judy Heumann.
IndieWire · 1m
Tenzing TIFF Debut Centers Sherpa Hero
Tenzing film highlights Sherpa's Everest summit role after decades of being overlooked.
Malay Mail · 1m
Hudson Williams on Heated Rivalry Return
Hudson Williams describes returning to 'Heated Rivalry' set as surreal.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Hudson Williams Teases Season 2 at TIFF
Hudson Williams sparks TIFF chaos with Season 2 tease.
Variety · 1m
Masc Review: Neurodivergent Gay Man's Debut Feature
A neurodivergent gay man's journey in Masc reveals everyday struggles and hope.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Danny Boyle’s Ink Movie Challenges Murdoch’s Media Empire
Danny Boyle’s new film Ink reimagines Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper empire with dark humor and generative AI.
Slate Magazine · 1m
10 Best Movies at TIFF 2026
Ukrainian teens navigate war and coming-of-age in 'Black Sunflowers' and other standout films.
Rolling Stone · 1m
THR Returns to TIFF With New Studio and Live Awards Chatter
THR brings exclusive TIFF content and live awards chatter to readers with a new studio and Penélope Cruz.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
TIFF 2026: Rock's Comeback, Farrelly's Standing Ovation
Chris Rock and Peter Farrelly deliver crowd-pleasing films at Toronto International Film Festival as the fall festival circuit wraps.
Variety · 1m
Trash Mountain
A queer man returns to his conservative Missouri hometown after his father's death to face family dysfunction and a literal mountain of hoarded possessions.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Closing Night aims high, lands loud
Cody Fern's directing debut strains for art-house family pain but cannot settle on a tone.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Chase Infiniti breaks out with The Julia Set
A TIFF surprise puts Chase Infiniti at the center of a tense story about genius, control and self-belief.
Variety · 1m
Danny Boyle’s awkward TIFF dodge
At TIFF, Danny Boyle’s Ink arrived with heat, praise, and one question he did not want to answer.
Variety · 1m
Avantika kicks off TIFF week on a W Toronto rooftop
A small dinner above Yorkville, Nikkei food from a Michelin-starred chef and a hidden vinyl bar that kept the night going.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
The pizza bomber heist gets a black comedy
Courteney Cox turns America's strangest bank robbery into a pitch black comedy with Patricia Arquette and David Harbour.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Rather die from Hamlet than AIDS
Andrew Scott plays a dying actor who chooses the stage over safety, in a film about living, not dying.
Mashable · 2m · 5 views
A 'hood film with no violence in it
Serville Poblete set his coming-of-age drama in a Toronto housing complex and left out everything you expect.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Crave goes witchy with 'Yaga'
Kat Sandler's Baba Yaga horror mystery lands at TIFF with a cast built for global buzz.
Variety · 1m
He spent 14 years on YouTube to reach TIFF
Mark Vins built a 22 million subscriber wildlife channel as the long road to one feature film.
Variety · 1m
TIFF 2026: what Andrew Webster actually saw
Daily dispatches from Toronto on a four-hour Musk doc, a hitman thriller born from Marvel's Blade collapse, and Laika's next stop-motion swing.
The Verge · 2m
Helen Mirren's toast to two farm girls
At TIFF's Tribute Awards, Helen Mirren turned a trophy into a thank-you note to Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem.
Vanity Fair · 1m
Alex Gibney's Musk doc runs four hours
A thorough, well-argued takedown of Elon Musk that may never reach the people it was built for.
The Verge · 1m
Cynthia Erivo's riskiest role yet lands at TIFF
Erivo took the stage at Toronto with a one-of-a-kind drama, and the room rose to meet her.
Variety · 1m
Good intentions can't save a clichéd film
Kim Bartley's first narrative feature means well, but Lemonade runs on autopilot from the first frame.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Seth Rogen calls his TIFF honor "ominous"
At 44, Seth Rogen got a career achievement award in his home country and wondered aloud if someone knew something he didn't.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Chris Rock asked PTA for notes, not applause
At the Toronto premiere of Misty Green, Chris Rock explained why he handed his directorial cut to Paul Thomas Anderson.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Helen Mirren's hardest role yet was Patricia Highsmith
Helen Mirren has played queens and prime ministers, but the Ripley author was the one she could not find herself in.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Jon Hamm's hostage story is a 1977 mirror
A 48-year-old kidnapping becomes Jon Hamm's way of talking about who gets ignored in America right now.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Christopher Walken plays an undertaker in a dry spell
A funeral home is going broke because nobody in town will die, so the granddaughter picks up a screwdriver.
Mashable · 1m
Gibney says Musk went silent on him
The filmmaker behind the Musk doc says every outreach hit a wall, and now he's worried about who owns the distributor.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Seth Rogen's best advice: less semen, more emotion
The kid who wrote Superbad at 13 built a career of 40-plus movies, and the best note he ever got was four words long.
Variety · 1m
Babies asks the question this couple never asked
Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen play a happy LA couple who suddenly realize they never actually decided about kids.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Seth Rogen's Hollywood secret: luck
At TIFF, Seth Rogen admitted the thing most success stories leave out, and named the bar where it all started.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
A 'Severance' producer just backed an Indian horror film
Nicholas Weinstock is attaching his name to 'Tongue,' a fantasy-horror feature out of India with Sayani Gupta in front of and behind the camera.
Variety · 1m
Shooting 'Angh' in the dark, at sea, off grid
A cinematographer heading to TIFF for the Variety Artisan Award, reached between a Baltic crossing and a Polish port.
Variety · 1m
A Mount Etna friendship drama finds its Italian home
Irene Dionisio's IDDA sold to FilmClub Distribuzione for Italy straight off its Toronto premiere.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Chanel and Variety's TIFF night of stars
Inside the Toronto Film Festival's most wanted invitation, where Oscar and Emmy winners greeted each other like old friends.
Variety · 1m
Kaelen Ohm skis her way into acting
The Canadian actor treats a film role the way she once treated a cliff drop: commit, or don't bother.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
TIFF 2026's 20 international films worth tracking
Variety's Toronto shortlist leans on British star power, new voices from Scotland and Ireland, and a gothic musical about taxidermy.
Variety · 1m · 5 views
A 1950s relocation promise that broke a family
Marie Clements turns the U.S. Native American Relocation Program into the story of one mother and her three daughters.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Fina Strazza teams up with her mom for a 1950s romance
A rising horror star is producing and headlining a New England love story directed by her own mother.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
TIFF day 3: Blade's loss is our gain
Mahershala Ali and Bassam Tariq skipped the superhero reboot and made a hitman thriller that hits harder.
The Verge · 2m · 5 views
She traded dance for acting, then Hollywood called
A hip injury ended one dream for Adia at 25, and the replacement led her to a film debut opposite Mahershala Ali.
Variety · 1m
Christopher Walken's Funeral Home Gets a Killer Boost
A dying funeral home starts booming when the quiet granddaughter starts filling it, and the crowd roots for her.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Chris Rock's 'Misty Green' has teeth
Chris Rock returns to directing with a Hollywood story that Variety calls the best in years, carried by Rosalind Eleazar.
Variety · 1m · 5 views
Rosalind Eleazar breaks out in Misty Green
Chris Rock's fourth film as director turns one actress's worst week in Los Angeles into a star-making showcase for its lead.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Why 'I Play Rocky' Smells Like a Best Picture Winner
Two Oscar histories, fifty years apart, point at the same underdog playbook now running in Toronto.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Mahershala Ali's holy hitman on the run
A devout Muslim assassin flees with three kids and a desperate hunt for breast milk, in the vampire-free 'Blade' Bassam Tariq never got to make.
Variety · 1m
Michelle Yeoh, a kidnapping, and a director who still sees patients
Roshan Sethi wrote a rom-com, a novel and a Fox drama, and still practices oncology. His new thriller puts all of it on screen.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Chris Rock's 'Misty Green' lands at TIFF
A Hollywood send-up premieres in Toronto, and Rosalind Eleazar stops the room cold with one song.
Variety · 1m
Playing Stallone, with Stallone Watching
Anthony Ippolito had to become a young Sylvester Stallone, and the real one was on the phone.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m · 5 views
Chrissie Hynde finally said yes
After ten years of knocking, a director got the Pretenders' most camera-shy legend to sit down and tell it straight.
Variety · 1m · 8 views
Mahershala Ali finally got his blade
The Blade movie died at Marvel, so its star and a director built something better: a hit man raising three kids alone.
Mashable · 3m
Seth Rogen's most personal film isn't his own
Lauren Miller Rogen wrote a comedy about deciding not to have kids, and put her marriage on screen doing it.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
The guy who wouldn't sell Rocky
Peter Farrelly's TIFF premiere turns Sylvester Stallone's fight to make "Rocky" into the crowd-pleaser of the festival.
Variety · 1m · 6 views
Africa's film push lands at TIFF
A bank-backed hub brought African stories to Toronto, headlined by a film about a Nobel laureate treating war's survivors.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
Indigenous filmmakers take over TIFF
A quiet funding push in Canada put eight First Nations directors on the Toronto Film Festival lineup at once.
The Hollywood Reporter · 1m
