Watch List Weekly Recap 9/15/23
An all-Toronto Film Fest edition, or: What to watch this fall.
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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.
Toronto Film Festival Report, Part I
Reviews of the new Miyazaki (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐), "Dumb Money" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2), "North Star" (⭐ ⭐), "American Fiction" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2), and more.
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" (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐).
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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