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The top 10 movies to see at TIFF 2015

Every year there are dozens of movies at TIFF to get excited about, but there's always a select few you just can't wait to see. So far I've coveredfilms by day of the festival,the buzziest films,Canadian,award-winning,documentaryandforeign films.

Here are the ten movies I can't wait to see at TIFF this year.

45 Years
Andrew Haigh'sWeekend是一种罕见的吗Before Sunrisewannabees evocations that lives up to the comparison.45 Yearsfinds Haigh not looking at a one-night stand this time, but the opposite: an elderly couple about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. An anniversary that gets threated when an ex-girlfriend of the husband throws a wrench in their plans.

Anomalisa
You can always count on Charlie Kaufman, the inventive mind behindAdaptationandEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, to give you something unexpected. ConsideringAnomalisais a stop-motion animated love story, I'm excited to expect no different from his latest. There are few minds quite like Kaufman's in moviemaking, so any new film of his is a highlight.

Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - 3
Miguel Gomes'Tabuin 2012 was a wonderful black and white daydream that made me eager to see what he would do next. Which is why I'm excited that at TIFF this year we don't get one film, but three - all connected by using the narrative mold ofArabian Nightsto turn modern day concerns in Portugal into fairy tales.

The Final Girls
As a lover of both horror movies and meta-stories (see: In the Mouth of Madness),The Final Girlscould not be more up my alley. With a story about a bunch of teenagers who wind up inside aFriday the 13thstyle film that they have to try survive the movie's Jason Voorhees equivalent, the film hopefully will deliver a whole lot of recreation of 80s slasher stereotypes and subversions of them.

龙虾
Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth)奇怪的电影。龙虾should be no exception. The cast is great, but it's the premise that's so appealing: in a dystopian future, single people have forty-five days in a hotel every year to find a life partner. If they don't? They're turned into animals and set loose in the wild.

Louder Than Bombs
RepriseandOslo, August 31stmade Joachim Trier one of my favorite directors, and one of the few to capture the millennial generation fairly--the good and the bad--on screen. His first English language film stars Gabriel Byrne as a father trying to reconcile with his sons (one of whom is played by Jesse Eisenberg) after the death of his wife.

Mississippi Grind
I stand by Ryan Reynolds. I believe he's an actor who remains always just short of the wider recognition he deserves. Which is why I look forward toMississippi Grindabout two gamblers hustling to collect enough cash for a big-stakes game in New Orleans that could change their lives.

SPL 2 - A Time For Consequences
The firstSPL(released here asKill Zone) showcased the talents of martial arts star Donnie Yen, as well as some of the best movie fights of recent memory. Ten years later,SPL 2hopefully will do more of the same, just this time swapping out Yen for the equally impressive Tony Jaa (Ong Bak).

Spotlight
While my Thomas McCarthy (Station Agent, The Visitor) devotion was somewhat shaken by last year's terribleThe Cobbler. However, hope springs eternal the director can find his footing again with this true life story about the Boston journalists who uncovered the Catholic Church's cover ups of abuse, as well as with this all-star casts (Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and more).

The Witch
IfThe Witchis anywhere as terrifying as its trailer makes it seem, this Sundance his will be a can't miss for for someone like me who enjoys getting the heebie jeebies.

What are your most anticipated movies at TIFF 2015? Let us know in the comments.

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Film still from Louder than Bombs.


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