TIFF 2019: The biggest breakouts, surprises and disappointments of Toronto film festival’s first weekend

). Balancing furiously zippy comedy with rip-your-heart-out melodrama and anchored with frighteningly committed lead performances,is a rare commodity in modern Hollywood: a film made for adults, a film made without compromise and a film that envelopes you completely.A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. The first, a legal thriller starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx, brought the Elgin Theatre to its feet several times on Friday night.

Tom Hanks’s performance in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as children’s TV host Fred Rogers is the best actor-character fit of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival., meanwhile, proved the Jennifer Lopez comeback that started bubbling with last year’s rom-comis just beginning. A massive coterie of critics was dazzled by the crime drama about a crew of strippers who turn the tables on the Wall Street bros who treat them like disposable commodities.

. The “anti-hate” satire screened late Sunday and is one of the biggest remaining question marks of TIFF, given its emphasis on a suspect genre that I’m going to call Triple H .All this, and still to come Monday and beyond are the Meryl Streep comedy, Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s crime thrillerThe latter is arriving in Toronto on Monday night hot off winning the Venice Film Festival, promising enough debate and discourse to dominate the duration of TIFF.

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