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Reviews from TIFF 2026: All of a Sudden, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Rogue Trooper, How We Stand, and Below.
Reviews from TIFF 2026: All of a Sudden, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Rogue Trooper, How We Stand, and Below.
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Hello once again from Toronto, where for a week every year I watch far too many movies and tell you all about them. The festival, better known as TIFF, is always a great preview of the months ahead in film, with a nice mix of mainstream fare, awards contenders, indie surprises, and genre flicks destined to be cult classics. The streamers also love to make their presence felt here, previewing some of their most anticipated projects. Last year, for instance, Netflix showed off both Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited Frankenstein as well as the third Knives Out movie, and I was also able to watch everything from the terrifying video game adaptation Exit 8 to Park-Chan wook’s dark satire No Other Choice.
This year looks similarly promising. There are new films from directors like Takashi Miike, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and Werner Herzog, and very intriguing features including a four-hour-long documentary on Elon Musk. There are also previews of a surprising number of Halloween-adjacent streaming series in the form of Netflix’s Below, Peacock’s Crystal Lake, and Amazon’s Carrie. I’m aiming to see just shy of 30 films and series over the next week or so, and, just like last year, I’ll be writing daily dispatches covering every single thing I see with a brief review.
And things have gotten off to a very interesting start. On my first day I watched four movies and the premiere of a streaming series, highlighted by John Turturro’s wonderful turn as a technophobic petty thief in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York. I also saw one of the most Canadian things I’ve ever watched and a three-hour drama that somehow doesn’t feel overlong.