Toronto 2016 Preview | Early Picks
A guide to navigate through the Toronto International Film Festival's labyrinth of choices.
Film-Forward
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Has time been kind to waning publicity powerhouse Edina Monsoon and age-defying fashion editor Patsy Stone, after more than 20 years of imbibing every variety of chemical substance under the sun and fervently following every fashion trend?
Captain Fantastic | Cannes 2016
Family friction plus quirky culture clashes plus road trip nearly equals Little Miss Sunshine.
Life, Animated
In his graceful and disarming documentary, filmmaker Roger Ross Williams gets inside the head of Owen Suskind, an autistic young man who learned how to communicate by taking his social and language cues from classic Disney cartoons.
Palme d’Or Winner “I, Daniel Blake” | Cannes 2016
Urgency. That was the main ingredient propelling many of the best films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, including the winner of the Palme d’Or, I, Daniel Blake.
Toni Erdmann | Cannes 2016
An observational, 160-minute-long family drama-cum-screwball comedy took critics by surprise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Elle | Cannes 2016
Though rife with sexual violence and graphic dialogue, the last film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival was also the most elegantly made in the competition: Paul Verhoeven’s blunt, button-pushing, stinging comedy.
“The Red Turtle” and “My Life as a Courgette” | Best First Films at Cannes 2016
This year, the two best films made by first-time feature filmmakers at Cannes were animated. Both movies are told with precision but without rigidity. In both cases, you won’t know where the free-flowing story is headed.
Standing Tall
Emmanuelle Bercot’s empathetic and clear-eyed film presents a pungent portrait of a young adult. Its lead actor won the César Award, the French equivalent of the Oscar, for most promising actor.