The 2026 Toronto Film Festival kicked off Thursday, September 10, and features a slew of world premieres including the official opening-night film Being Heumann, Oscar winner Siân Heder‘s follow-up to her Best Picture winner CODA. The event’s 51st edition features 10 days of premieres, gala presentations and more as the third leg of the fall festival tour (along with Venice and Telluride) that helps set the agenda for awards season.
Among the fest’s world premieres are the latest from such filmmakers as Green Book double Oscar winner Peter Farrelly (I Play Rocky), Shakespeare in Love Oscar nominee John Madden (Onwards & Sideways), Chris Rock (Misty Green) and Anton Corbijn (A Talent for Murder).
TIFF also will feature the world debuts of Prima Facie, from British director Susanna White starring three-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, and The Assassin(s) from Korean filmmaker Hur Jin-ho, whose A Normal Family played Toronto in 2023.
Among others screenings are Friends star Courteney Cox directing debut Evil Genius, Tim Blake Nelson’s prison thriller The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, One Battle After Another breakout Chase Infiniti’s The Julia Set and director Rebel Wilson’s The Deb follow-up Girl Group.
Scroll below to read about Deadline’s reviews out of TIFF 2026, and click on the link to read the full versions. Keep checking back as we add more.
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‘Being Heumann’
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Section: Gala Presentations
Director: Siân Heder
Cast: Ruth Madeley, Mark Ruffalo, Dylan O’Brien, Madeline Delp, Rob Delaney, Ray Fisher, Michael Patrick Thornton, Antwan Tolliver, Daniel Durant, Jon Beavers, Roberta Colindrez, Russell Harvard
Deadline’s takeaway: — GG
‘The Housewife’
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Section: Special Presentations
Director: Ben Shirinian
Cast: Naomi Watts, Luke Evans, Tye Sheridan, Lena Olin, Michael Imperioli, Ron Leo
Deadline’s takeaway: In an enormously tricky and risky performance, Emma Watts is stunning as a seemingly typical 1950s Queens housewife who harbors a horrific secret, and Ben Shirinian’s impressive debut feature stands out as it tries to show how one person can embody the worst, most monstrous aspects of humanity and then lock it away. — PH
