
The 10 best films of TIFF 2025 so far
Jason Gorber
created: Sept. 12, 2025, 2:34 p.m. | updated: Sept. 13, 2025, 5:35 a.m.
We're halfway through this year's Toronto International Film Festival, and already a huge number of standout films have played for local audiences.
With screenings taking place until Sunday, there's still time to catch a number of these films and experience some truly world-class cinema at TIFF 2025.
The Last VikingBleak Scandinavian comedies are often a treat at TIFF, and Anders Thomas Jensen's most recent collaboration with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas is an absolute delight.
Mixing family trauma with ABBA performances and Beatles garb, this wild, twisted tale is precisely the kind of offbeat fun that festivals thrive on.
Bad ApplesThere are two films at TIFF with Irish people playing teachers struggling with troubled students (the other is the underwhelming Steve, starring Cillian Murphy).
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