The Toronto International Film Festival set the stage for the upcoming award season and introduced us to some of the year’s most anticipated films. From American Fiction to Dumb Money, here are five movies worth putting on your watch list following their world premiere in Toronto.
American Fiction
The winner of TIFF’s People’s Choice Award, American Fiction follows the respected author Thelonious “Monk” Ellison who comes up with a questionable way to fight the stereotypical representation of the Black community in modern literature.
D—s: The Musical
One of the most talked-about movies in Toronto this year, A24’s very first musical tells the tale of two business rivals who are caught off guard after realizing they’re identical twin brothers.
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron served as TIFF’s opening film this year, and it won us over with a poignant tale about a teenage boy who enters a magical world after discovering an abandoned tower in his new town.
Lee
Kate Winslet received rave reviews in Toronto for her portrayal of Lee Miller, a former fashion and fine art photographer who left her old career behind to become the World War II correspondent for Vogue.
Dumb Money
If you loved The Big Short, you have to watch this acclaimed dramedy about a rag-tag investor who caused the GameStop short squeeze and flipped the script on Wall Street.
