The Toronto International Film Festival unofficially closes out the year's big movie fests. It's free of the uptight air of Cannes, and lacking the insular, indie bubble of Sundance. It's the most widely accessible, the fan festival and generally points to what major releases will draw box office numbers and Academy Awards. This year's slate is mercifully short on glitzy blockbusters and instead has a solid lineup of gritty, weird, intense movies that we'll all be talking about well into next year. Here's my pick of the 20 to watch for this fall.
Green White Green
Free Fire
Park
Sofie Exarchou's debut from Greece is a coming-of-age story set in the wastelands of Athens' Olympic Park.
Arrival
Nocturnal Animals
Everyone's been waiting for Tom Ford's second feature film. Starring Michael Shannon, Amy Adams, and Jake Gyllenhaal, this looks as aesthetically punchy as his debut A Single Man.
Gaza Surf Club
Catfight
Anne Heche, Sandra Oh, Alicia Silverstone in a knife fight to the death, or to the end of the dinner party at the very least.
The Handmaiden
La La Land
KING OF THE DANCEHALL
Nick Cannon's ode to Jamaican dancehall stars Beenie Man and Whoopie Goldberg. Here for it.
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