{"id":2663,"date":"2015-08-26T19:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/08\/26\/25-must-see-movies-at-toronto-film-festival-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-08-26T19:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T19:00:12","slug":"25-must-see-movies-at-toronto-film-festival-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2015\/08\/26\/25-must-see-movies-at-toronto-film-festival-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Must-See Movies at Toronto Film Festival 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"list-item-hd\">\n<p class=\"h2\"><em>David Fear \/ Rolling Stone<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"h2\">It&#8217;s the second-to-last stop on the Fall film-festival circuit, after Venice and Telluride and before the carefully curated New York cinefeast \u2014 but the Toronto International Film Festival holds a special place in traveling festgoers hearts. It&#8217;s a chance to catch up on the year&#8217;s already lauded entries from Cannes, Berlin and, occasionally, Sundance. You don&#8217;t need to fly to the nosebleed-altitude Colorado mountains to get there. It&#8217;s the semi-official kick-off of the awards season, when prestige films start garnering buzz and truly bad Oscarbait get Bronx cheers. And its catch-all approach to programming (big studio releases, under-the-radar docs, deep-cut foreign-language movies, namebrand-auteur hat tips, a raucous Midnight Madness section \u2014 and starting this year, a TV sidebar) means fanatics get a well-balanced diet of visual gorging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"h2\"><strong>&#8216;High-Rise&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Viva Ben Wheatley! The British director has been quietly churning out jawdropping, midnight-movie masterpieces ranging from genre mash-ups (the kitchen-sink gangster film\u00a0<em>Down Terrace,<\/em>\u00a0the serial-killer romcom\u00a0<em>Sightseers<\/em>) to the downright unclassifiable (<em>Kill List,<\/em>\u00a0<em>A Field in England<\/em>). Now he&#8217;s taking on J.G. Ballard&#8217;s 1975 novel about a giant apartment building that doubles as a petri dish for class warfare, and the results look slick, sick and completely stunning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Fear \/ Rolling Stone It&#8217;s the second-to-last stop on the Fall film-festival circuit, after Venice and Telluride and before the carefully curated New York cinefeast \u2014 but the Toronto International Film Festival holds a special place in traveling festgoers hearts. 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