Below you will find our favorite films of the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.
TOP PICKS
FERNANDO F. CROCE
1. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
2. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
3. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
4. Ex Libris (Frederick Wiseman)
5. Faces Places (Agnès Varda, JR)
6. Manhunt (John Woo)
7. Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
8. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
9. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani)
KELLEY DONG
1. Rose Gold (Sarah Cwynar), Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Restack, Sheilah Wilson Restack)
3. Good Luck (Ben Russell)
4. Manhunt (John Woo)
5. The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu)
DANIEL KASMAN
1. Ex Libris (Frederick Wiseman)
2. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
3. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Restack, Sheilah Wilson Restack)
5. I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K.)
6. Rose Gold (Sarah Cwynar)
7. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
8. below-above (André Lehmann)
9. Onward Lossless Follows (Michael Robinson)
10. The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois)
11. Manhunt (John Woo)
12. The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
13. Yeti (Wojciech Bąkowski)
MICHAEL SICINSKI
1. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
2. Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Restack, Sheilah Wilson Restack)
3. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
4. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
5. Prototype (Blake Williams)
6. Fantasy Sentences (Dane Komljen)
7. Félicité (Alain Gomis)
8. Mademoiselle Paradis (Barbara Albert)
9. Onward Lossless Follows (Michael Robinson)
10. Brown and Clear (Kevin Jerome Everson)
11. Aliens (Luis López Carrasco)
12. Some Cities (Francesco Gagliardi)
13. The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini)
15. The Watchmen (Fern Silva)
16. Cocote (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias)
17. Wasteland #1: Ardent, Verdant (Jodie Mack)
18. Beyond the One (Anna Marziano)
19. BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
20. below-above (André Lehmann)
CORRESPONDENCES
#1 Daniel Kasman on Ex Libris (Frederick Wiseman) | Read
#2 Fernando F. Croce on Félicité (Alain Gomis), In the Fade (Fatih Akin), Manhunt (John Woo) | Read
#3 Kelley Dong on Manhunt (John Woo), Good Luck (Ben Russell) | Read
#4 Daniel Kasman on Youth (Feng Xiaogang), The Rider (Chloé Zhao) | Read
#5 Fernando F. Croce on mother! (Darren Aronofsky), Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu), The Florida Project (Sean Baker) | Read
#6 Kelley Dong on The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci), Submergence (Wim Wenders), Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Restack, Sheilah Wilson Restack) | Read
#7 Daniel Kasman on The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois), Pixilation (Anne Charlotte Robinson) | Read
#8 Fernando F. Croce on The Shape of Water (Guillermo Del Toro), Faces Places (Agnès Varda, JR), Rainbow: A Private Affair (Paoli Taviani, Vittorio Taviani) | Read
#9 Kelley Dong on The Third Murder (Hirokazu Kore-eda), (100ft) (Minjung Kim) | Read
#10 Daniel Kasman on First Reformed (Paul Schrader), Caniba (Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor) | Read
#11 Fernando F. Croce on First Reformed (Paul Schrader), Zama (Lucrecia Martel), Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler) | Read
#12 Daniel Kasman on Rose Gold (Sara Cwyna), Yeti (Wojciech Bąkowski), I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K.) | Read
#13 Fernando F. Croce on Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh), Bodied (Joseph Kahn), Scaffold (Kazik Radwanksi) | Read
MICHAEL SICINSKI
INTERVIEWS
Blasted By the Bullets: Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani Discuss Let the Corpses Tan
by Daniel Kasman
Fertile Soil: Xavier Beauvois Discusses The Guardians
by Daniel Kasman
Less Is More: Ilian Metev Discusses 3/4
by Raúl Liébana Liébana
The Man with No Hands: Lucrecia Martel and Zama
by Darren Hughes and Daniel Kasman
We Are All One Woman: Vivian Qu Discusses Angels Wear White
by Kelley Dong