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Sep 14, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

TIFF 2026: the latest movie reviews from Toronto

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Andrew Webster

If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start. Every year TIFF features a huge range of features from around the world, and often some of them go on to be huge hits or awards contenders; the 2025 edition, for instance, included the likes of bothHamnetandObsession.

Covering a sprawling festival like TIFF solo is next to impossible, so I do my best to see as much as I can, and then write about everything with bite-sized reviews published each day. For 2026, that means exciting upcoming films likeYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother,The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, and a gigantic Elon Musk documentary, and even a few streaming series likeCrystal LakeandCarrie.

You can keep up with my thoughts on everything I watch right here.

Highlights

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    The four-hour-long Elon Musk documentary might be preaching to the choir

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    It makes sense thatMuskis a long film. The latest from Alex Gibney, who has previously directed documentaries aboutTheranosandSteve Jobs, is an impressively thorough retelling of the story of Elon Musk, from his early days as a dot-com millionaire to “taking a wood chipper” to vital US government departments. In order to understand Musk’s rise to power, you need to know the whole story.Musktells it compellingly and convincingly, but doesn’t offer much in the way of revelations if you’re aware of Musk’s catastrophic influence on the world. For everyone else, a demanding runtime just shy of four hours might prove too much of a barrier to being convinced.

    The film opens with shots of space and a voiceover of Musk detailing some of his sci-fi ambitions. From there, it’s a fairly chronological narrative of how we got to this point. The first section of the film reveals how Musk’s mythology was built, while also steadily seeding doubts that he’s the Tony Stark–style tycoon that many believe him to be. It starts off with the basic details, like when Musk was ousted as CEO from PayPal or how he convinced the world he founded Tesla, a company that existed before he was involved. The film juxtaposes his many bombastic claims about autonomous vehicles with visceral footage of a deadly crash involving a Tesla on autopilot. It drops in poignant interviews, like when former MAGA influencer Ashley St Clair, mother to one of Musk’s many children, declares in a terrified voice: “Elon is a nuke.”

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  • Sep 13

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    Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother will make you forget all about Marvel’s Blade disaster

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    Marvel’s mishandling of itsBladereboot will likely go down as one of the studio’s biggest mistakes. There was a great actor in place to play the vampire hunter (Mahershala Ali), and a promising director set to take over the reins (Bassam Tariq). In retrospect, though,the disappointing demise ofBlademight not be such a bad thing, because Tariq and Ali have collaborated on something much more interesting than a superhero reboot: the powerful hitman thrillerYour Mother Your Mother Your Mother.

    That was one of five movies I was able to cram into a very hectic third day at the Toronto International Film Festival (you can see my previous reportshereandhere), and it was one of those days that drives home why events like TIFF can be so special. Each film I saw was drastically different from the last — there was everything from a drama about drifting cars to a throwback horror flick based on a famous Japanese ghost story — which was a great reminder that there are still plenty of new ideas left in the world of film.

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  • Sep 12

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    Laika’s stop-motion fantasy Wildwood looks so smooth

    Image: Laika Studios

    Due to a scheduling mishap, I was only able to check out two movies on my second day at the Toronto International Film Festival — but I did manage to get an early look at and some fascinating details on one of my most anticipated films this year.

    Even if you don’t know the name Laika, you probably know the studio’s work; it’s the animation house behind stop-motion hits likeParaNorman,The Boxtrolls, andKubo and the Two Strings. Over the years Laika’s films have steadily gotten more impressive on both a technical and artistic level. Which brings us to the incredible-lookingWildwood, hitting theaters next month. If you’re unfamiliar, here’s a look:

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  • Sep 11

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    New York City’s last pickpocket doesn’t need a smartphone

    Image: Sony Pictures Classics

    Hello once again from Toronto, where for a week every year I watch far too many movies and tell you all about them. The festival, better known as TIFF, is always a great preview of the months ahead in film, with a nice mix of mainstream fare, awards contenders, indie surprises, and genre flicks destined to be cult classics. The streamers alsoloveto make their presence felt here, previewing some of their most anticipated projects. Last year, for instance, Netflix showed off bothGuillermo del Toro’s long-awaitedFrankensteinas well asthe thirdKnives Outmovie, and I was also able to watch everything fromthe terrifying video game adaptationExit 8toPark-Chan wook’s dark satireNo Other Choice.

    This year looks similarly promising. There are new films from directors like Takashi Miike, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and Werner Herzog, and very intriguing features including a four-hour-long documentary on Elon Musk. There are also previews of a surprising number of Halloween-adjacent streaming series in the form of Netflix’sBelow, Peacock’sCrystal Lake, and Amazon’sCarrie. I’m aiming to see just shy of 30 films and series over the next week or so, and,just like last year, I’ll be writing daily dispatches covering every single thing I see with a brief review.

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