Now that it’s done, the film world is left wondering, Which flick was the best? We’ve got more pressing questions. And answers. Read on for our very own picks for the Toronto International Film Fest’s superlative winners.
Anna Karenina. No contest. Nothing beats Jacqueline Durran’s 19th-century, high-society getups. Except maybe Sarah Greenwood’s extravagant production design.
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Antiviral. Debut director Brandon Cronenberg (yes, that Cronenberg’s spawn) gave birth to the weirdest freak fest we’ve seen yet. It’s about addiction, and the drug is celebrity. People line up to feed upon the shadow of perfection — and by feed, we mean eat. With a fork. And a knife. Kardashian kebab, anyone?
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Argo. The political thriller from director/actor Ben Affleck finds a happy balance of funny, entertaining, and serious. Expect to be holed up somewhere for a good two hours for the true story of a fake movie that saved six American hostages from the Iranian revolution.
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Cloud Atlas. Three directors take on David Mitchell’s 528-page novel spanning 500 years by casting dozens of high-profile actors in multiple roles each for a movie that swells to two hours and 44 minutes. Gotta give it up.
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Frances Ha. Greta Gerwig and Mickey Sumner play Frances and Sophie, the hetero life mates who dance to the beat of their own creative drum in Noah Baumbach’s black-and-white seriocomedy-meets-French new wave flick.
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Reincarnated. Or a Dogg called kitty. In his doc, Snoop embraces his inner Rastafarian and becomes Snoop Lion as producer of his first reggae album. And it had people J-O-double-G-ing to see it.
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Silver Linings Playbook. Money riding on Oscar noms? Pay attention to David O. Russell’s solid gold funny drama starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence as a couple brought together via depression. Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker, and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) complete the roster.
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Spring Breakers. Harmony Korine delivers a trashy and ludicrous week of debauchery you’ve got to see to believe. (Really. Go see it.) Lil’ Hollywood (Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez) goes wild in bikinis, and a cornrowed James Franco fine-tunes Britney Spears’s “Everytime,” with a piano — and machine guns.
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Thanks for Sharing. Mark Ruffalo leads the sex-addicted cast in Stuart Blumberg’s hilarious directorial debut (you know his work; he wrote The Kids Are All Right and The Girl Next Door). Gwyneth Paltrow fleshes out the fittingly happy ending.
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The Impossible. An English-language Spanish production about one family’s true story of surviving the tsunami that wiped out Thailand, from The Orphanage director J.A. Bayona. His recreation of the water monster will hit you like a tidal wave — no joke.
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The Master. Joaquin Phoenix felt the burn from leading the failed I’m Still Here. But with his tour-de-force performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece, consider him risen from the ashes.
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The Place Beyond the Pines. A bleach blond Ryan Gosling plays a motorcycle stuntman who robs banks to provide for his fam — a habit that acts as a catalyst for Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance’s triple narrative.
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To the Wonder showed at TIFF. Director Terrence Malick did not. Though known for brilliant, cerebral filmmaking, he’s also (publicly) disdainful of public appearances. No bother; his wife said plenty on his behalf (google it).
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