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Tiff 2023

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    TIFF Has a Whole Lot of Supply, Not Enough DemandRichard Linklater’s Hit Man went to Netflix for $20 million in the biggest deal out of the fest.
    By Zoe Guy
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    The 14 Best Movies We Saw at Venice and TIFF This YearFall festival season has brought a bounty of awards contenders, star-making performances, and must-see masterpieces.
    By Rachel Handler and Bilge Ebiri
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    I Watched Eight New Movies Directed by Actors. Are Any of Them Actually Good?Due to the strikes, the Toronto Film Festival stacked its lineup with actor-directed debuts. I watched (almost) all of them.
    By Nate Jones
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    To Its Credit, Nyad Makes Its Subject Look Like a Real AssholeNyad may be a frustrating biopic, but at least it doesn’t soften the self-mythologizing long-distance swimmer’s rougher edges.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Paul Giamatti Is Never Better Than When He’s in an Alexander Payne MoviePrep school dramedy The Holdovers, the pair’s first collaboration since Sideways, showcases Giamatti’s capacity for the prickly and the heartbreaking.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Is Taika Waititi Even Trying Anymore?The New Zealand filmmaker’s new film, Next Goal Wins, is so sloppily made that it might make you wonder why he even bothered.
    By Alison Willmore
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    God Forbid a Woman Fund Her Film Without Some B.S.Kate Winslet says men were “outraging” her while she was trying to finance Lee.
    By Zoe Guy
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    In Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage Confronts the MemesAt its best, Cage’s new film works as a parable for acquiescing to other people’s reality — a conceit that gets very specific when it comes to him.
    By Nate Jones
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    We’re Going to Be Talking About This Book-World Satire All FallCord Jefferson’s directorial debut, American Fiction, is a sharp comedy about racial commodification anchored by a terrific Jeffrey Wright.
    By Alison Willmore
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    How to Make a Movie Based on Extremely Recent HistoryDumb Money hits theaters less than three years after the GameStop short squeeze it dramatizes. Director Craig Gillespie shows us how it was done.
    By Nate Jones
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    The GameStop Movie Is More Entertaining Than It Has Any Right to BeIs Dumb Money the first Pete Davidson role that works in its entirety?
    By Alison Willmore
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    Can You Get It Up for Dicks: The Musical?Sure, Venice had Yorgos and Bradley and Sofia, but it didn’t have what is basically The Parent Trap with more gay incest.
    By Nate Jones
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    Miyazaki Didn’t Lose a StepBack from temporary retirement, Hayao Miyazaki’s new film, The Boy and the Heron, is a reminder of what makes him an animation legend.
    By Alison Willmore
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    What’s at TIFF? An A24 Musical, Miyazaki, and the GameStop MovieThis year’s film festival starts with a bang: Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, a “semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation.”
    By Alison Willmore and Nate Jones
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    TIFF 2023 Pushes Through Strikes, Releases LineupIncluding a Lil Nas X documentary.
    By Jason P. Frank
  16. everything everywhere is all a24
    Stop Making Sense Is Returning to Theaters As an A24 MovieA full trailer arrives ahead of the TIFF premiere.
    By Rebecca Alter