Joey Magidson
Greetings from Toronto! I’ve settled into my Airbnb here in Canada, in preparation for the Toronto International Film Festival. The 2022 edition of TIFF kicks off pretty much right as you’re reading this, and it’s going to be something. Film screenings, fancy parties, movie premieres, and just being in another country. There’s nothing else quite like it. This is my second year attending, with many years in my future still to come. Coming hot on the heels of the Telluride Film Festival, and while the Venice Film Festival is still going on, there’s a bit of festival whiplash. I wasn’t at the fest in Venice, obviously, but I was in Telluride. Now, I’m in Toronto and about to see several of the year’s most hotly anticipated titles.
Last year, my TIFF experience was very different than most. One, it was still a COVID festival, so most opted to take it in virtually. So, it was a fairly low key fest. Two, I was there with my now ex-girlfriend, so it was a bit more relaxing and closer to a vacation in some ways. That’s all in the past, and there were tons of great films I saw, including Belfast, The Power of the Dog, and Spencer, but it will always feel like a unique memory to me. Anyway, onward and upward.
This year, TIFF is a more star studded affair, including the World Premieres of Steven Spielberg‘s The Fabelmans and Rian Johnson‘s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. There’s also Darren Aronofsky‘s The Whale, alongside plenty of other titles of note. It’s almost an embarrassment of riches, which will make seeing everything impossible. Still, I’m going to try to get about a dozen in, perhaps more. Time will tell, but there will be no shortage of things that I see over the next five days or so, as Shane also detailed here…
Below, you can see the movies that seem most interesting at Toronto. I’m sure it won’t end up exactly being the case, but with the Honorable Mentions, there’s over 50 flicks listed. So, you should have plenty of 2022 (and 2023) releases to dig into here!
Here are the 35 films (in alphabetical order) I think one should most be looking out for at TIFF:
Alice, Darling
All Quiet on the Western Front
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
The Banshees Of Inisherin
Biosphere
Broker
Bros
Catherine Called Birdy
Causeway
Decision to Leave
Devotion
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Good Nurse
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
The Inspection
A Jazzman’s Blues
Living
The Lost King
The Menu
Moving On
My Policeman
Pearl
Raymond and Ray
Sidney
The Son
Triangle of Sadness
V/H/S/99
Wendell & Wild
The Whale
The Woman King
The Wonder
Honorable Mentions: Bones of Crows, Carmen, Dalíland, EO, Emily, The End of Sex, The Eternal Daughter, Fixation, Good Night Oppy, Holy Spider, Maya and the Wave, Moonage Daydream, Nanny, One Fine Morning, Patrick and the Whale, Return to Seoul, Sanctuary, Susie Searches, The Swimmers, and What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Stay tuned for all of my coverage from the Toronto International Film Festival!
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