Key
– Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 7-17)
– Saw at Cannes or Locarno
– Saw at a TIFF pre-festival press screening
– Saw a screener of some kind
Tier 0 [A/A+]
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Tier 1 [A-]
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont) – 8.0
Tier 2 [B+]
Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) – 7.6
Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR) – 7.2
I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K.) – 7.0
Tier 3 [B]
Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel) – 6.9
BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) – 6.9
First Reformed (Paul Schrader) – 6.6
The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho) – 6.5
3/4 (Ilian Metev) – 6.3
The Florida Project (Sean Baker) – 6.3
The Rider (Chloé Zhao) – 6.2
Tier 4 [B-]
The Day After (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.1
The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois) – 6.1
Western (Valeska Grisebach) – 6.1
A Skin So Soft (Denis Côté) – 6.1
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 6.0
Félicité (Alain Gomis) – 6.0
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler) – 5.9
Zama (Lucrecia Martel) – 5.8
Downsizing (Alexander Payne) – 5.8
Ex Libris – The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman) – 5.7
I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoniand) – 5.7
Happy End (Michael Haneke) – 5.6
Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin) – 5.5
Good Luck (Ben Russell) – 5.4
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) – 5.4
The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini) – 5.4
Redoubtable (Michel Hazanavicius) – 5.4
Tier 5 [C+]
Manhunt (John Woo) – 5.3
Le Fort des fous (Narimane Mari) – 5.2
Makala (Emmanuel Gras) – 5.2
Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing) – 5.1
Bodied (Joseph Kahn) – 4.7
Dragonfly Eyes (Xu Bing) – 4.7
A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano) – 4.7
Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz) – 4.7
Radiance (Naomi Kawase) – 4.6
Beyond the One (Anna Marziano) – 4.6
Tier 6 [C]
Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – 4.5
The Square (Ruben Östlund) – 4.4
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro) – 4.3
Occidental (Neïl Beloufa) – 4.3
Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) – 4.2
Lean On Pete (Andrew Haigh) – 4.1
On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi) – 4.0
Dark River (Clio Barnard) – 3.9
Cocote (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias) – 3.8
Tier 7 [C-]
Thelma (Joachim Trier) – 3.6
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) – 3.4
mother! (Darren Aronofsky) – 3.3
In the Fade (Fatih Akin) – 3.1
Tier 8 [D+ and lower]
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Shorts [more or less ranked]
– Rose Gold (Sara Cwynar)
– Onward Lossless Follows (Michael Robinson)
– Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Leventhal & Sheilah Wilson)
– Turtles Are Always Home (Rawane Nassif)
– Florence (1970, Erkki Kurenniemi)
– Scaffold (Kazik Radwanski)
– Pixillation (1976, Anne Charlotte Robertson)
– Yeti (Wojciech Bąkowski)
– Dislocation Blues (Sky Hopinka)
– Fantasy Sentences (Dane Komljen)
– Palmerston Blvd. (Dan Browne)
– Flores (Jorge Jácome)
– Wasteland No.1 – Ardent, Verdant (Jodie Mack)
– The Watchmen (Fern Silva)
– From Source to Poem (Rosa Barba)
– Division Movement to Vungtau (Benjamin Crotty & Bertrand Dezoteux)
– Brown And Clear (Kevin Jerome Everson)
– Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt (Pacho Velez & Yoni Brook)
– Aliens (Luis López Carrasco)
– below-above (André Lehmann)
– Configuration in Black and White (Helga Fanderl)
– some cities (Francesco Gagliardi)
– (100ft) (Minjung Kim)
– Ticino (Friedl vom Gröller)
– La Libertad (Laura Huertas Millán)
– Fluid Frontiers (Ephraim Asili)
– Heart of a Mountain (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour)
– Fire (Lucy Parker)