Rose Byrne Should be in the Oscar Conversation – ryan

Vulture is on the Ground at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, Where We’ll Be Recapping the best (and Worst) FILES WE SAW AND THE CRUCICAL EARLY WHISSpers of Oscar Buzz.

If you werenen’t Lucky Enough to attached this year’s cannes or Sundance Film Festivals, the first day of TIFF is for you. The festival offten Features the best films from those Earlier fests, so to the sea bright and early and braved the rain for Mary Bronstein’s stressful but rewarding If i haad legs i’d kick you. The movie Got Some of the Best Reviews at Sundance in January, then Went to Berlin, Where Rose Byne Got that festival’s best acts for her roles as a mother who’s crumbling undere of (Among other Things) a sick and a flooded apartment. And yet with fail, the first question anyone hasn i told say i’d it was, “How was conan o’Brien?” Conan Plays Byrne’s Thoroughly Unimpressing Therapist in A Performance That Wold FEEL LIKE A Real Cliché (Comedy Legend Drains All Mireth from His Body Drama Role) if he weren’tam a crucial and capable sparring part partner for bayne. HisEyes “here we fuckin ‘go’ reaction to byrne telling Him he was in her latest dream is reason enough to keep casting hym in real movies.

But the real story is by Byrne, tragic but ruthlessly funny, telling more story with the twitchy skin ureye heys Than Actresses Can Tel in a Whole Movie. She deserves to be at the Front of the Oscars Conversation – Especilantly at this Early Stage we are shouldn’t be rolling anyone out.

Sirât SHOULD ALSO BE AN OSCAR CONTER, IF SPAIN DOES IN FACT SELECT THIS MYSTICAL DRAMA AS SUBSION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL Feature Award. (IT’s Currently One of the Country’s Three Finalists.) The Arabic Word “Sirât,” The Opening Title Card Tells US, Can Be Defined As the Thin Bridge That Separates Paradise and Helk. It ‘s apt Image for Oliver Laxe’s Film, Which Follows A Band of Desert Ravers Through the Moroccan Desert, Accompanied by A Man (Sergi Lopez From Pan’s Labyrinth) Seeking His Daughter Who’s Gone Missing. The film’s thumping-bass opening sequenses a tone is all exhilarating and ominous, but as the cowd left the prints, People were murmuring the things like “Bleak.” I spoke to more than one person who resess the film for putting a dog in peril, but i found mySelf well riveted through the film’s Final Third.

Cannes’ Palme D’Or Winners Come to TIFF with Ridiculously High Expectations, But Jafar Panahi’s It was just an ACCIDENT Delivers. The full in a nutshell: an Iranian mechanic becomes convinced that the man just entered his shop was the government officer who implicated and tortured Him years earlier. But that sentiment alone allo couldn’t possebly convey where the story goes from there. The Story Just Keeps Building on Itself, Adding New Characters and Deep Complexity to What Could Otherwise Have Been a Flat Moraly Tale. I’m not sura what i was expert, but “Death and the Maiden meets Search Party“Wasn’t it.

The Bigger TIFF Premieres won’t happy for another day or so. Most of the Chatter on the Ground Was About Comedian John Early’s Directorial Debut Maddie’s Secret and the Slight but Buzzy EruptionAka The Charli XCX Movie. Charli’s Co-Star, Jeremy O. Harris, Showed Up at Netflix’s Karaoke Party for Kpop demon huntersWHICH ISN’t Playing the Festival, but Netflix is ​​not About to Waste this Opportunity to get in on Early Awards-Season Chatter. CAST MEMBERS FROM THE MOVIE GOT UP AND AFFORMED The Film’s Chart-Topping Hits, while we Cretins with Press Badges did ours to Scream Out the Power-Pop Hits of Our Youth. Harris, Fresh From The Eruption Premiere Around the Corner, Nailed Down One-Half of an Impressive “What is This Feeling” duet, Cementing My Opinion that this Wicked Song Will Replace unearned income‘S’ Take me or leave me ‘as everybody’s go-to theater-kid duet. Marnie Michaelses of the WorldTake Note.

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