With its huge lineup of hundreds of movies, the Toronto International Film Festival is the best place for films that will figure in the awards race that kicks off with a vengeance after the back-to-back blast of the Venice, Telluride and Toronto festivals. But is TIFF 2024 the best place to discover new entries into that race? Based on the first four days of this year’s festival, probably not.
This year has seen a lot of satisfying crowd-pleasers, ranging from the opening night film “Nutcrackers” to “The Last Showgirl,” “All of You,” “The Cut,” “Unstoppable,” “The Life of Chuck” and “The Fire Inside.”