Toronto Film Festival 2026: Read All Of Deadline’s Reviews
The 2026 Toronto International Film Festival opened on 10 September with its official opening-night film Being Heumann, the latest from Oscar winner Siân Heder, director of Best Picture winner CODA. Now in its 51st year, the ten-day festival forms the third leg of the autumn festival circuit alongside Venice and Telluride, helping to shape the forthcoming awards season with a raft of world premieres, gala screenings and other events.
Notable premieres include new work from Peter Farrelly (I Play Rocky), John Madden (Onwards & Sideways), Chris Rock (Misty Green) and Anton Corbijn (A Talent for Murder), alongside Susanna White's Prima Facie starring Cynthia Erivo and Hur Jin-ho's The Assassin(s). Other selections feature Courteney Cox's directorial debut Evil Genius, Tim Blake Nelson's prison thriller The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, and Rebel Wilson's Girl Group. Deadline is publishing reviews of films from the festival on a rolling basis, including early coverage of Being Heumann and Ben Shirinian's feature debut starring Naomi Watts.
In short
- TIFF's 51st edition opened 10 September with Siân Heder's Being Heumann.
- Ten-day festival features world premieres from Farrelly, Madden, Rock and others.
- Deadline is publishing rolling reviews of TIFF 2026 films throughout the event.
Explained simply
The Toronto International Film Festival is an annual film event held in Canada. It brings together new films, filmmakers and audiences, with screenings ranging from premieres to films seeking wider distribution.
Toronto is one of several major festivals held ahead of the film awards season, alongside Venice and Telluride. The films and performances shown there can attract attention from audiences, distributors and awards voters, though a festival screening does not guarantee later awards success.
The festival programme includes work by established directors and first-time filmmakers, as well as films starring well-known actors. Reviews help readers understand how critics respond to those films as they are shown.