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- Sep 24, 2026
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Greek epics, gory obsessions and awkward invites: where does this yearâs Oscars race stand? (opens the original)
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Christopher Nolanâs The Odyssey might be the one to beat but a crop of competitors is starting to materialise Reporting from fall film festivals used to be a more streamlined process â whatâs good, whatâs bad, whatâs being sold, what has Oscars chances â but with each year, the season arrives with larger, more existential questions. The 2025 run, from Venice to Telluride to Toronto, was notably underwhelming and took place months after Sinners went from box-office hit to legitimate c
Elsinore review â Andrew Scott is astonishing as Ian Charleson in devastating Aids drama (opens the original)
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Toronto film festival: the actor gives his greatest screen performance to date as the Chariots of Fire star who spends his final months playing Hamlet on stage It was an endlessly parodied cliche that any queer film released during a certain period would be about one thing and one thing only: Aids. In 1993, Philadelphia showed a wider audience a mostly clean and palatable version of the crisis, and won Oscars for doing so, and for a time, when gay men werenât acting as sassy friends to women i
Ancestors review â messy but moving ghostly drama about the Aids crisis (opens the original)
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Toronto film festival: Saipan standout Ãanna Hardwicke is a soulful gay man looking for a missing friend in a striking yet muddled debut Itâs not normal to regularly contemplate mortality in your twenties, to ask questions about where we might go after we die and whether any part of our legacy will even matter in the years following. But for gay men in the 1980s, death was everywhere. In David Turpinâs intermittently impactful debut Ancestors, the director tries to make a connection with th
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd review â Amanda Seyfried compels in wrenching prison drama (opens the original)
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Toronto film festival: Tim Blake Nelson writes and directs a challenging, and unsettling, look at empathy and forgiveness that strikes a haunting note There are troubling questions posed in Tim Blake Nelsonâs effectively glum prison drama The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, a film that will rank among the most overwhelmingly feel-awful experiences of this yearâs Toronto film festival. Itâs a story told in a disarmingly folksy manner with plucked guitar strings and down south homespun wisd
Love of Your Life review â Margaret Qualley eats, grieves and loves in Amazonâs transporting saga (opens the original)
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Toronto film festival: the actor gives one of her best performances to date in a smoothly made globe-trotting drama of a womanâs life after the loss of her husband Thereâs a jump scare about 30 minutes into the glossy romantic drama Love of Your Life thatâs about as effective as anything youâll see in a horror movie this year. The film is focused on the life and loves of Maya (Margaret Qualley), a twentysomething Boston nurse who meet-cutes with the nerdy and idiosyncratic Felix (Gabriel
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