#TIFF26: “BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Detective Lieutenant Yabuki (Shun Oguri) once had connections with the Yakuza before they were forced underground. Now he is haunted by old memories, addicted to drugs and gambling and his wife just packed up the kids and bailed. Yabuki gets paired off with an FBI Agent (Lilly James to find the missing daughter of a Vice President hopeful, and in the process, gets mixed up with a serial killer from his past.
For such an intricate description, it pains me to say that BAD ...
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#TIFF26: “LOVE OF YOUR LIFE” PREMIERE
On Sunday, September 13, 2026, Amazon MGM Studios celebrated the world premiere of Love Of Your Life at the Royal Alexandra Theater in Toronto for the International Film Festival.
Talent in attendance included director Rachel Morrison and cast members Margaret Qualley, Aaron Pierre, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Basso, and Catherine Keener; screenplay writer Julia Cox; and producer Jessie Henderson.
Following the premiere screening, guests attended the post-premiere celebration at Soho ...
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#TIFF26: DAYS 5&6 – JULIANNE MOORE, PENÉLOPE CRUZ, JAVIER BARDEM, JACK O’CONNELL, JESSE EISENBERG, GUY PEARCE, JENNIFER COOLIDGE AND MORE
tiff '26 Day 5 and 6 sightings were our most stacked days yet, including:
•Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Florian Zeller for BUNKER•Jesse Eisenberg and Julianne Moore for THE DEBUT•Jack O'Connell and Guy Pearce for INK•Jennifer Coolidge for GIRL GROUP•Alden Ehrenreich for A TALENT FOR MURDER•Kim Hyun-joo and Bae Hyeong-seong for PARADISE LOST•Will Sharpe for IN WAVES•Takashi Miike and Shun Oguro for BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO•Cole Sprouse for VINTAGE VIOLENCE•Jacob ...
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#TIFF26: “TANGLES” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
It is the late 1990s and Sarah (Abbi Jacobson) is a queer artist and activist who has just gotten a promotion at work and has a new girlfriend named Donimo (Samira Wiley). Things in Sarah’s life quickly change after she takes a trip home and notices her Mom Midge (Emmy-winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus) acting completely out of character. She pushes her father Rob (Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston) to take Midge to a doctor, and when he finally does, the family learn that Midge has ...
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#TIFF26: “MINOTAUR” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest is a reworking of Claude Chabrol'sLa femme infidèle (The Unfaithful Wife) but adapted to the filmmaker's homeland, Russia, at the start of its war on Ukraine.
Gleb (Dmitriy Mazurov) is a powerful corporate Director with the picture-perfect family…until the start of the war, when his picturesque life begins to crumble. Ordered by the government, he must pick 14 workers to fill draft quotas for front-line warfare. And his life at home ...
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#TIFF26: “ALL THAT SHE WANTS” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Emma (Emmy-winner Annie Murphy) is in her 30s and has just broken up with her long term jerk of a boyfriend. She goes out clubbing soon after and meets college kid Luke (Cha Cha Real Smooth’s Cooper Raiff). They hit it off, sleep together, and in the morning quickly find out that Emma used to babysit Luke when he was an infant.
Sitcom-esque shenanigans, growing pains and the age gap discourse ensue for our totally perfect and destined-for-each-other couple. It is all ...
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#TIFF26: “JOSEPHINE” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
Josephine opens with a first-person pov shot from its protagonist--a little girl learning to run and jump with her dad (Channing Tatum). Though the camera leaves this particular setup, Josephine's perspective is locked in for the rest of the film. We're inhabiting the soul of a child in the earliest stages of development, and when she's the only third-party witness to a sexual assault, her journey becomes as painful as it is impossible to look away ...
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#TIFF26: DAY FOUR SIGHTINGS – JULIANNE MOORE, AMANDA SEYFRIED, LIAM NEESON, JAY BARUCHEL, JORDAN FIRSTMAN, ANDREW SCOTT, BILLIE PIPER AND MORE
A big Day Four sightings, including:
•Jordan Firstman for CLUB KID•Amanda Seyfried, Scoot McNairy and Tim Blake Nelson with THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF WILSON SHEDD•Liam Neeson for THE MONGOOSE•Summer H. Howell and Mike Flanagan for CARRIE•Annie Murphy, Cooper Raiff and Finn Wittrock for ALL THAT SHE WANTS•Andrew Scott and Billie Piper for ELSINORE•Jay Baruchel for THE STUNT DRIVER•Ming-Na Wen and Isabella Wei for WHATCHA WANT•Jesse Eisenberg and Julianne Moore for THE ...
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#TIFF26: “BABIES” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Writer-Director Lauren Miller Rogen has created a delightful comedy about the decision every long-term couple faces: to parent or not to parent.
Happily married couple Annie (Anna Kendrick) and Aaron (Seth Rogen) have been together for 17 years. Surrounded by friends who have children, they are constantly asked, “When are you having kids?” They’ve danced with the idea but haven’t committed one way or the other. But when one of their friends moves into their ...
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#TIFF26: “WILD HORSE NINE” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
The year is 1973 and CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell) have been dispatched to Easter Island in the weeks leading up to the Chilean coup d'état.
That is the basic set-up for Oscar-winner Martin McDonagh’s latest picture (his fourth in a row at TIFF, which includes People’s Choice Award winner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) before it devolves into his trademark brand of bleak, profane humour and deep introspection on ...
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