Let this serve as the official TIFF Review reference guide since the festival closed up shop Sunday night after the Free screening of the People's Choice winner Room. We hope you enjoyed reading along with our reviews. Amir and I saw about 50 movies between us but we'll have to wrap up now as NYFF screenings have already started and Oscar charts MUST be updated and so on.
Fall Film Season is finally upon us!
3 of my favorites of the 29 I saw...
37 Films Reviewed
45 Years British marital drama (Nathaniel)
3000 Nights Palestinian prison drama (Amir)
Anomalisa Existential stop-motion dramedy (Nathaniel)
Arabian Nights: Vol 2 Portugueuse art film with politicial satire vignettes (Nathaniel)
As I Open My Eyes Tunisian music drama (Nathaniel)
Baba Joon Israel's immigrant family drama & Oscar submission (Amir)
Bang Gang French teen sex drama (Nathaniel)
The Clan Argentine true crime drama (Nathaniel)
Closet Monster Canadian LGBT drama (Nathaniel)
Dégradé Palestinian hair salon set female drama (Amir)
Demolition Canadian grief dramedy (Nathaniel)
Desde Allá Venezuelan LGBT Drama & Venice winner (Amir)
Dheepan French Immigrant drama, Palme d'or winner (Amir)
The Dressmaker Australian revenge dramedy (Glenn)
Embrace of the Serpent Black & White Colombian Amazon journey (Nathaniel)
Eva Doesn't Sleep experimental Argentine corpse drama (Nathaniel)
The Family Fang US Dramedy about a performance art family (Nathaniel)
Girls Lost Swedish LGBT Teen Drama (Nathaniel)
Granny's Dancing on the Table Swedish animated/live-action hybrid (Nathaniel)
The Here After Swedish School Drama (Nathaniel)
Homesick Norwegian incest drama (Nathaniel)
I Saw The Light US musical biopic (Nathaniel)
Invisible Filipino immigrant drama (Nathaniel)
Love French 3D sex drama (Nathaniel)
Much Loved Moroccan docudrama on sex workers in Marrakech (Amir)
Mustang Turkish coming of age drama (Amir)
Phantom Boy French animated adventure (Nathaniel)
Room US family/crime drama, and People's Choice Winner (Nathaniel)
Spotlight, US journalist drama (Nathaniel)
Stonewall US gay history drama (Nathaniel)
Taxi Jafar Panahi's comedy & Berlinale Winner (Amir)
Truth US TV news political drama (Nathaniel)
Victoria German continuous shot crime drama (Nathaniel)
The Wave Norwegian disaster epic (Nathaniel)
The Witch this year's Sundance horror sensation (Nathaniel)
Youth Showbiz drama (Nathaniel)
upside down, VICTORIA turned me, inside out. and round and round
Other TIFF Articles
Best Actress Contenders (Nathaniel)
Red Carpet Opening Weekend (Jose)
Red Carpet Post-Venice (Jose)
Victoria's Single Take / Birdman Comparison (Sebastian)
People's Choice and Other Awards (Nathaniel)
Women He's Undressed - The Interview (Jose)
IndieWire Critics Poll (Nathaniel)
TIFF Juries of One
I polled the podcasters who stayed the whole fest. Here's what they said...
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| Nathaniel R | Joe Reid | Nick Davis | |
| Film | Room | Son of Saul | Arabian Nights |
| Director | Cirro Guerra, Embrace of Serpent | Ridley Scott, The Martian |
Laszlo Nemes, Son of Saul |
| Actress | Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years |
Cate Blanchett, Truth |
Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Dheepan |
| Actor | Jacob Tremblay, Room |
Abraham Attah, Beasts of No Nation | Frederick Lau, Victoria |
| Supp. Actress | Kate Dickie, The Witch |
Julianne Moore, Maggie's Plan | Ghalia Benali, As I Open My Eyes |
| Supp. Actor | Stanley Tucci, Spotlight |
Scoot McNairy, Our Brand is Crisis | Abdella Didane, Much Loved |
| Craft Contribution | Sound, Victoria |
Cinematography, Son of Saul |
Cinematography, The Assassin |
| Cinematography, Embrace of Serpent | Art Direction, Room |
Sound, Son of Saul |
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| Score, Spotlight |
Costumes, The Danish Girl |
Camera Operator, Victoria |