The worst part about attending the Toronto International Film Festival each year is, unsurprisingly, that it has to come to an end. TIFF is always the best of times with the best of buds, watching (hopefully) some of the best movies to hit in the next calendar year or so. And boy howdy, did the programming team do one hell of a job this year. Bucking Fastard, Wild Horse Nine, The Debut, Alpha Gang, and most of the other titles… that’s a line-up anybody would envy.
Of course, there are some movies I just didn’t have time to review, including La Bola Negra, which shockingly beat out I Play Rocky for the People’s Choice Award (it’s very good!), and a few other big titles that I’ll cover later on in the year once I’ve had a chance to see them again. Be on the lookout for pieces about Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, Elsinore, Possible Love, and a few other features soon. But I can count on one hand the number of movies I disliked, and given that I saw 27 movies at TIFF this year, that’s one hell of a batting average.
So, without further ado, grab your TimBits and dive into the archive of Vanyaland’s TIFF 2026 coverage, and we’ll see you back at the Lightbox in 2027.
TIFF 2026: Five films we can’t wait to see at the fest —
Here at the Toronto International Film Festival, we’ve got alien greasers, bad lieutenants on the Tokyo beat, slashers on the riverbanks, and Taron Egerton. Hype.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘Hope’ is the wildest action movie of 2026 —
Na Hong-jin’s ‘Hope’ proves that, yes, you don’t have to have the best CGI money can buy to make kick-ass sci-fi epics.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘Wild Horse Nine’ is a Malkovich masterwork —
When Martin McDonagh’s films lean on his dialogue more than their plotting, they’re typically something worth savoring.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘Club Kid’ drops a fresh beat on fatherhood —
Jordan Firstman’s ‘Club Kid’ forgoes depth for surface-level satisfaction, and achieves its goals in a broad crowd-pleasing fashion.
TIFF 2026 Review: Michelle Yeoh cuts deep in ‘The Surgeon’ —
Smartly constructed and propulsive, ‘The Surgeon’ will be a metaphorical defibrillator for those in need of a good shock.
TIFF 2026 Review: Don’t get to know ‘The Unknown’ —
‘The Unknown’ is what happens when you have a decent idea – a body-swap pseudo-horror picture – and absolutely no clue how to stretch it out.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘River’ wants you to sit in the splash zone —
‘River’ is not going to be the next ‘Obsession’ or whatever, but it is something fun enough to enjoy at a midnight screening with buds.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘Ink’ has way too much sympathy for its devils —
Danny Boyle interprets the rags-to-riches story of the UK Sun tabloid as an ‘Animal House’ slobs-and-snobs battle.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘Alpha Gang’ is exceptionally stylish and silly —
It’s a bizarre genre fusion of a biker/greaser gang movie and a covert alien-invasion film, with each making as little sense in context as it does on the page.
TIFF 2026 Review: Lauren Miller-Rogen’s ‘Babies’ is sweet and sensitive —
Thinking of a movie like Lauren Miller-Rogen’s ‘Babies’ as a hot-button political statement is bizarre, but such is the weird world we live in currently.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ hits the mean streets of Shinjuku —
Takashi Miike serves up some solid action, some amusing asides, and some stomach-churning gore.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘Vintage Violence’ has everybody down bad for denim —
Eugene Kotlyarenko’s ‘Vintage Violence’ has some violence, but it has a whole lot of vintage — vintage Levi’s, to be exact.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘The Debut’ is Jesse Eisenberg’s best movie —
Featuring incredible performances by Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘The Debut’ is a fantastic little comedy.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘A Long Winter’ is beautiful and bitterly cold —
Fred Hechinger is the MVP of Andrew Haigh’s ‘A Long Winter,’ a gorgeous adaptation of Colm Toibin’s short story.
TIFF 2026 Review: ‘Bucking Fastard’ is a Werner Herzog masterpiece —
Featuring incredible performances by Rooney and Kate Mara, ‘Bucking Fastard’ is a funny yet moving tribute to the weird of the world.