The Toronto International Film Festival reserves its opening weekend for world premieres, such as films that have not previously screened at Sundance, Cannes, Venice or Telluride. Unfortunately for the festival, it seems like most of the films with major awards prospects this season have chosen not to wait. Case in point: Two movies premiering in prime time on Friday night, unstoppable (5:30 p.m. in Roy Thomson Hall) and we live in time (9:30 p.m. at the Princess of Wales Theatre). Both are very engaging and moving, but the path forward to awards is also very narrow.
unstoppableDirectorial debut from Oscar-winning film editor William Goldenberg (2012 Argo), tells the true story Anthony RoblesBorn with only one leg and a broken family, he still managed to become a world-class college wrestler. Jarrell Jeromea talented Emmy Award winner when they see usThe performance as Robles is particularly good, aided by some top-notch visual effects. It’s also good to jennifer lopez as his mother; Bobby Cannavale as his abusive stepfather; and Michael Pena and Don Cheadleas his high school and college coaches.
unstoppableThe film was a tear-jerker and received a two-minute standing ovation (cheering as the real Robles showed up), as was the case with Lokiwhich is referenced again and again in a variety of ways. The difference is, we’ve now seen countless sequels Loki There are countless similar acts of plagiarism that generally desensitize audiences and awards voters to weak, against-all-odds sports stories, even if they happen to be true and well-done.
In a season where leading actor awards are so scarce, I wouldn’t completely rule out the 26-year-old Jerome from the Best Actor race. But unless the influential TIFF Audience Award is voted for the film, I think Amazon/MGM may have to settle for a limited theatrical and streaming reception sometime before the end of the year.
at the same time, we live in time is the latest movie John Crowleydirected the 2015 Irish brooklyn Best Picture, Actress (saoirse ronan) and adapted screenplay nomination before crashing to earth with a 2019 critical and commercial bomb goldfinch. Crowley’s new film is neither exciting nor worthy of awards. brooklyn Not as good as goldfinch. It falls somewhere in the middle.
Adapted from an original screenplay Nick Payne, we live in time – like constellationPayne may be best known for her 2015 drama, a two-handed play with time. It stars two of the cutest movie stars in the game, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pughas a young couple who fall in love, live their lives and face tragic circumstances (vs. constellation)—although not necessarily in this order. It achieved the goals it clearly set out to achieve.
The film – which A24 has yet to set a release date for – is a good old-fashioned tearjerker, a more modern, raunchy version of, for example: Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson We would have starred together 80 years ago. However, does it have the scale and gravitas to which Academy members typically respond? Probably not.
