Toronto International Film Festival
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Toronto’s First Weekend: ‘Moonlight’ Leads the Way as TIFF Gets Bold
At a strong festival, the heat so far has gone to the films that take big risks, among them “Nocturnal Animals” and “Arrival”
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‘Denial’ Toronto Review: Are There Echoes of Donald Trump in Rachel Weisz’s Holocaust Drama?
Toronto 2016: Director Mick Jackson says you can find contemporary resonance in his story about a court case betwieen an author and a Holocaust denier
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Sarah Jessica Parker to Star, Sing in AMBI Pictures Drama
“Sex and the City” star also producing film about songstress’ devastating diagnosis
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Terrence Malick Offers Two Completely Different Versions of Masterful ‘Voyage of Time’
Toronto 2016: The director premiered a gloriously elusive reverie on the history of the universe, and a shorter IMAX version that is surprisingly explanatory
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‘Queen of Katwe’ Toronto Review: David Oyelowo Mentors a Chess Champ in Uplifting Tale
Toronto 2016: Director Mira Nair gives “inspirational” a good name with the powerful true story of real-life Ugandan chess champion Phiona Mutesi
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‘Transparent’ Creator Jill Soloway Weighs in on Matt Bomer Playing a Trans Woman (Video)
Toronto 2016: “If so many trans people had their own shows, and they were casting trans people in their own stories, this would probably be less of a stain,” showrunner told TheWrap
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‘Snowden’ Toronto Review: Oliver Stone Plays It Aesthetically Safe
Toronto 2016: Stone names the right (and left) names in this biopic of the whistle-blower, but his storytelling style lacks punch
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‘American Pastoral’ Toronto Review: Ewan McGregor Travels to Philip Roth Country, and Fits Right In
Toronto 2016: Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a tough nut to crack for the screen, but first-time director McGregor gets a lot of things right
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Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Gets Cheers, Applause at Toronto Premiere
Toronto 2016: Parker, cast and 20th Century Fox CEO Stacey Snider all attend Canadian premiere
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Toronto Doc ‘The Sixth Beatle’ Tells Fresh Story But Hits Bum Notes
Toronto 2016: The film’s TIFF debut includes a disclaimer that it is removing all footage of a historian who now calls the film “erroneous”
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Sean Penn’s ‘The Last Face’ Scores Saban Films Distribution Deal
War love story stars Javier Bardem and Charlize Theron as aid workers in Africa
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‘The Magnificent Seven’ Toronto Review: Denzel and Company Aim and Miss in Western Remake
Toronto 2016: A bizarrely subdued Washington and blandly feisty Chris Pratt lead a diverse pack of gunslingers in Antoine Fuqua’s semi-stylish but mostly disappointing update of the 1960 classic
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10 Hottest Movies for Sale in Toronto, From Bryan Cranston’s ‘Wakefield” to Bruce Lee Biopic (Photos)
TheWrap quizzed buyers and sellers at TIFF’s film market for which titles have the most heat — and which will fetch top dollar
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Toronto Film Festival: Awards, Politics and, Oh Yeah, ‘Birth of a Nation’
Eleven days will have plenty of on- and off-screen drama, but right now Nate Parker is overshadowing it all
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Riz Ahmed on ‘City of Tiny Lights’: ‘It’s a Movie About Hurt, But Also Hope’
Toronto International Film Festival selection is “showing people a kind of story they don’t normally see and I feel they should,” actor tells TheWrap