The last water taxi had barely left Venice before the looks from Toronto Film Festival 2025 started to drip into our social media feeds.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the festival. Its lineup includes Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, the James McAvoy-directed California Schemin’, Romain Gavras’s Sacrifice, starring Charli xcx, and Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine — also known as “The Film That Will Win Dwayne The Rock Johnson An Oscar.”
