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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Benjamin Lee

From The Critic to Wicked Little Letters: 10 films to look out for at Toronto film festival 2023

Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton in The Critic
Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton in The Critic, a 30s-set thriller. Photograph: Toronto film festival

The Hollywood strikes might have brought a new look to this year’s fall festival season, with stars and red carpets at a minimum, but the lineups are as stacked as ever, and, one might argue, suggest less focus on circus and more on cinema.

Venice gave us Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, David Fincher’s The Killer and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things. Telluride gave us Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. And now the biggest of them all, at least when it comes to audience size, Toronto, lands this week with a long list of question marks. Here are the films worth keeping an eye on:

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