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The 25 Most-Anticipated Movies From the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival

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The 25 Most-Anticipated Movies From the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival

From a host of Oscar hopefuls to music docs on the E Street Band and Sir Elton — your guide to the movies to catch at this year’s TIFF

The knockout punch of the one-two-three combo that kicks off the fall festival season (after Venice and Telluride), the Toronto International Film Festival has always shown a polite sense of pride over its mix of programming. Yes, it’s a key platform for the sort of films that make directors and stars walk the red carpet in autumn so they can waltz up to the Dolby Theatre’s stage next spring. You also get a healthy dose of world cinema, as well as a rare chance to sample a lot of Canada’s homegrown talent in bulk. Nonfiction films on everything from the toll of war to South Korean fisherwomen show the world in two hours. Plus music docs and midnight movies offer a chance to clean the palette — you can walk out of a premiere of a prestige picture that everybody will be crowing about for the rest of the year, then slip into a portrait of the E Street Band or enjoy the pleasurable company of pulpy thrillers, vampire-driven potboilers or postapocalyptic parables.

This year is no different. We’ve pored through TIFF 2024’s lineup and found 25 movies that run the gamut from a Georgian drama about an abortionist under fire to an old-school three-and-a-half hour American epic to a gonzo look at the rise and fall of Vice media. Here’s what we’re looking forward to catching at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival once it kicks off on September 5th.

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