All the best movies we've seen at Toronto Film Festival, ranked
TORONTO – O, Canada, our home for the next week of excellent movies and Oscar-hopeful fare, including a Donald Trump biopic, a Hugh Grant horror flick and a drama where Amy Adams thinks she’s turning into a dog.
Toronto International Film Festival, which runs through Sept. 15, for years has been a major launching pad for best picture winners like “Parasite,” “Nomadland” and “Spotlight.” And while not all of the 2024 lineup is probably headed for Academy Awards glory – yes, it would be nice to see a Stephen King adaptation such as “The Life of Chuck” make the Big Show one day – the slate is pretty stacked with high-profile projects from notable personalities (Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson and Jennifer Lopez), legendary artists (Bruce Springsteen and Elton John) and iconic directors (Francis Ford Coppola and Ron Howard).
We’re keeping a running tally on the movies we watch at Toronto, and here’s the best of the fest so far, ranked:
X. 'The Quiet Ones'
Based on the tale of the largest robbery in Denmark’s history, director Frederik Louis Hviid’s action thriller stars Gustav Griese as boxer and family man Kasper, who’s not destined for in-ring success. He happens to be really good at planning, in this case for ambitious heists. Griese, with a seriously cool action-movie vibe to him (give him a call, Netflix!), plays Kasper with a steely nerve as he’s recruited to not only figure out how to pull off an impossible job but deal with the issues egos and greed create, while Amanda Collin aces a supporting role as a security guard caught up in the chaos.
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