Toronto film festival 2021
Toronto film festival 2021 roundup – from poets to deadly parasites
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Dear Evan Hansen review – ghoulish Ben Platt sinks high school musicalFirst look review
The Survivor review – Barry Levinson’s solid postwar boxing dramaFirst look review
The Desperate Hour (aka Lakewood) review – Naomi Watts school shooting thriller falls short
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye review – Jessica Chastain nails gaudy TV evangelistFirst look review
The Mad Women’s Ball review – Mélanie Laurent’s compelling melodramaBenediction review – Terence Davies’ piercingly sad Siegfried Sassoon drama
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The Humans review – masterly family drama transfers from stage to screen
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The Starling review – toe-curlingly embarrassing Melissa McCarthy dramaFirst look review
The Forgiven review – Chastain and Fiennes light up darkly comic thrillerFirst look review
Beba review – Rebeca Huntt’s personal, probing documentary-memoirThe Guilty review – Jake Gyllenhaal’s tense 911 call thriller
Encounter review – Riz Ahmed can’t save uneven sci-fi invasion drama
Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain movies head to Toronto film festival
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain review – Cumberbatch’s cat artist drowns in quirk