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Watch List Weekly Recap 9/15/23

An all-Toronto Film Fest edition, or: What to watch this fall.

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Sep 15, 2023
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This is the Friday recap of Ty Burr’s Watch List postings for the week. If you’d like to cut down on in-box clutter and receive this weekly email ONLY, please go to your account page and under “Email notifications” uncheck every box except “Weekly Digest.” If you’d prefer to not receive it at all, uncheck just “Weekly Digest.”


Note to subscribers: The Watch List will be on hiatus for the next two weeks while the author finally takes the overseas vacation that COVID scrubbed in 2020.


Festival Reports

Toronto Film Festival Report, Part I

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Sep 9
Toronto Film Festival Report, Part I

Reviews of the new Miyazaki (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐), "Dumb Money" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2), "North Star" (⭐ ⭐), "American Fiction" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2), and more.

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Festival Reports

Toronto Film Festival Report, Part II

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Sep 12
Toronto Film Festival Report, Part II

Reviews of Viggo Mortensen's "The Dead Don't Hurt" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐) with Vicky Krieps (above), Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2), Radu Jude's "Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2), and -- my favorite movie at this year's TIFF -- Azazel Jacob's "His Three Daughters" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐).

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Festival Reports

Toronto Report III: Batting Clean-up

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Sep 15
Toronto Report III: Batting Clean-up

Reviews of "The Royal Hotel" (above, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐), Richard Linklater's "Hit Man" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐), and more -- plus, a few recommendations for the weekend before I cut out for two weeks.

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Kal80
Sep 15

Have a great trip!

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Melody Mendelsohn
Sep 16

Very sorry you missed Perfect Days. Think you would have loved!

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