Our favorite picks from TIFF 2019.
, resplendent in a golden Maison Yeya dress, at the premiere on Saturday night; the afterparty, at a small Toronto lounge, created the kind of gridlock that makes even the famously polite Canadians lose their cool. Hype like this is fun, but here at the Toronto International Film Festival, it can feel a little beside the point. You come to TIFF not to find out aboutAnd the news on that front has somewhat less sex appeal. Docudramas! This is shaping up to be quite a year of them.
Anyway, with a Canadian federal election looming, politics was definitely in the air, and nowhere more so than at the , a chilly and chilling recreation of the five-year effort that led to the U.S. Senate’s report on the CIA’s illegal use of torture after 9/11. Since it debuted at Sundance in January,for its methodical, talky, procedural approach. And yet I found this movie more tense and riveting than that Oscar-winning film, and credit goes to a formidably contained Adam Driver as real-life Senate aide Daniel J. Jones and writer/director Scott Z.
Also in the category of films that sound dull but definitely aren’t, please file the brilliantly entertaining two-hander,. This Netflix film, which arrives in theaters and then on the streaming service in late November, stars the inimitable Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins as Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI, respectively, and chronicles the moment when Benedict resigned from the papacy, clearing the way for Francis.
is somber, modest in look, and, I’m afraid, stiflingly earnest. Jordan and Foxx are gunning for Oscars here, and they may well get them. Everything aboutsays Very Important Movie, and the standing ovation after the crowd-pleasing end went on and on.
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