Watch List Weekly Recap 9/15/23

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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.

Festival Reports

Toronto Film Festival Report, Part I

Ty Burr • Sep 9, 2023

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

Ty Burr • Sep 12, 2023

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

Ty Burr • Sep 15, 2023

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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