Toronto Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Film Reviews

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off September 5 with a multi-move opening night that included David Gordon Green’s household comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller. It kicked off a slate of world premieres and buzzy movies throughout 11 days for the forty ninth version of one in all North America’s largest movie festivals.

Other key titles making their debuts in Toronto embody 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 embody Elton John: Never Too Late and Paul Anka: His Way.

Click under to learn Deadline’s opinions from the bottom in Toronto and maintain checking again as we add extra. The competition wraps September 15.

Bonjour Tristesse

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 arms feels extra true to Françoise Sagan’s novel and turns into a extra complicated story of the character of feminine relationships, the mysteries inside and their winding paths.

Section: Special Presentations
Director: Gia Coppola
Cast: Pamela Anderson, Dave Bautista, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kiernan Shipka, Brenda Song, Billie Lourd, Jason Schwartzman
Deadline’s takeaway: This take a look at the lives of the notorious Vegas showgirls is wise, touching, humorous, trustworthy and clever. It’s Pamela Anderson’s second to shine and, boy does she ever shine — proper as much as an ending that leaves us hopeful.

The Luckiest Man in America

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 cost, this entire state of affairs retains us engaged due to the actor’s capability to breathe some humanity into these oddball characters. You can see why he couldn’t resist this one. 

Nutcrackers

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 form of movie Hollywood used to ship all of the time however has clearly forgotten make — till now. Among the inspirations for director David Gordon Green have been The Bad News Bears, Six Pack, Uncle Buck and Overboard. You may anticipate John Hughes was again from the useless, together with this style.

Unstoppable

Section: Gala Presentations
Director: William Goldenberg
Cast: Jharrel Jerome, Jennifer Lopez, Bobby Cannavale, Don Cheadle, Michael Peña
Deadline’s takeaway: You actually can’t evaluate Unstoppable to any inspiring sports activities drama that has come earlier than, both by way of what the primary topic has achieved in athletics or the obstacles he needed to overcome at dwelling. Its destiny rests on the flexibility of star Jharrel Jerome, in making us root for him and to imagine.