{"id":844599,"date":"2026-09-11T22:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844599\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:26:14","slug":"tiff-2026-movie-reviews-compilation-toronto-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844599\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF 2026 Movie Reviews Compilation: Toronto Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 2026 Toronto<\/a> Film Festival kicked off Thursday, September 10, and features a slew of world premieres including the official opening-night film<\/a> Being Heumann<\/a>, Oscar winner Si\u00e2n Heder<\/a>\u2018s follow-up to her Best Picture winner CODA<\/a>. The event\u2019s 51st edition features 10 days of premieres, gala presentations and more as the third leg of the fall festival tour (along with Venice<\/a> and Telluride<\/a>) that helps set the agenda for awards season.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the fest\u2019s world premieres are the latest from such filmmakers as Green Book double Oscar winner Peter Farrelly (I Play Rocky<\/a>), Shakespeare in Love Oscar nominee John Madden (Onwards and Sideways), Chris Rock (Misty Green<\/a>) and Anton Corbijn (A Talent for Murder<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tTIFF<\/a> also will feature the world debuts of Prima Facie<\/a>, from British director Susanna White starring three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, and The Assassin(s)<\/a> from Korean filmmaker Hur Jin-ho, whose A Normal Family played Toronto in 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: TIFF Centrepiece To Showcase 54 Features With Kamila Andini\u2019s \u2018Four Seasons In Java\u2019 & Avi Nesher\u2019s \u2018Our Loves\u2019 Among World Premieres<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAmong others screenings are Friends star Courteney Cox directing debut Evil Genius, Tim Blake Nelson\u2019s prison thriller The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, One Battle After Another breakout Chase Infiniti\u2019s The Julia Set and director Rebel Wilson\u2019s The Deb follow-up Girl Group.<\/p>\n

\n\tScroll below to read about Deadline\u2019s reviews out of TIFF 2026, and click on the link to read the full versions. Keep checking back as we add more.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: TIFF Docs Lineup Revealed: Rapinoe, Said, Love, And A Scent Of Musk<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Being Heumann\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple TV<\/p>\n

\n\tSection: Gala Presentations
Director: Si\u00e2n Heder
Cast: Ruth Madeley, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O\u2019Brien, Madeline Delp, Rob Delaney, Ray Fisher, Michael Patrick Thornton, Antwan Tolliver, Daniel Durant, Jon Beavers, Roberta Colindrez, Russell Harvard
Deadline\u2019s takeaway: While the title is a reference to disability rights activist Judy Heumann\u2019s tireless efforts in legislating accessibility, this biopic is better viewed as an ensemble piece that captures the entire movement she championed. Its two-hour runtime is somewhat excessive but perhaps prudent to capture the sit-in\u2019s grueling length. \u2014 GG<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Faith'\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Faith\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTIFF<\/p>\n

\n\tSection: Special Presentations
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Cast: Erin Doherty, James McAvoy, Liv Hill, Smylie Bradwell
Deadline\u2019s takeaway: The latest from British indie stalwart Paul Andrew Williams is an emotional chamber piece with a slow-burn supernatural twist that punches well above its weight, especially when star Erin Doherty\u2019s heartbreaking performance reaches chilling new heights of what can only be described as \u201craw.\u201d \u2014 DW<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018The Housewife\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToronto FIlm Festival<\/p>\n

\n\tSection: Special Presentations
Director: Ben Shirinian
Cast: Naomi Watts, Luke Evans, Tye Sheridan, Lena Olin, Michael Imperioli, Ron Leo
Deadline\u2019s takeaway: In an enormously tricky and risky performance, Naomi Watts is stunning as a seemingly typical 1950s Queens housewife who harbors a horrific secret, and Ben Shirinian\u2019s impressive debut feature stands out as it tries to show how one person can embody the worst, most monstrous aspects of humanity and then lock it away. \u2014 PH<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Jane<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018River\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIndependent Film Company\/Shudder<\/p>\n

\n\tSection: Midnight Madness
Director: Joshua Giuliano
Cast: Jane Levy, Jessica Rothe, Max Mattern, Dane Di\u00adLiegro
Deadline\u2019s takeaway: There\u2019s an eerie simplicity that separates Joshua Giuliano\u2019s debut feature film from others in the slasher genre, only leaning into tropes when it makes sense, and not falling into the trap of overly stylizing for the sake of appealing to under-stimulated horror fans. \u2014 GG<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Stuffed\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAgile Films<\/p>\n

\n\tSection: Discovery
Director: Theo Rhys
Cast: Jodie Comer, Harry Melling
Deadline\u2019s takeaway: \u201cSweeney Todd with taxidermy\u201d is the high-concept pitch behind this doozy of a musical black comedy that, ambitiously, attempts to make a serious point about modern-day loneliness and, thanks to its terrific core cast, pretty much succeeds. Hal Ashby\u2019s Harold and Maude is about as close a comparison as you might find in this very niche genre. \u2014 DW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Toronto Film Festival kicked off Thursday, September 10, and features a slew of world premieres including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[357477,353558,88,256898,331570,17204,357478,46686,12378,357479],"class_list":["post-844599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-a-talent-for-murder","tag-being-heumann","tag-entertainment","tag-i-play-rocky","tag-misty-green","tag-novid","tag-onwards-sideways","tag-tiff","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-film-fesival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}