Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Thursday September 16th 2021.

On today's episode of the show we're going to be talking about the best movies at the

2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

My name is Ben Pierce and I'm a senior writer at slash film at slash film senior writer and chief film critic Chris evangelista.

Hello. Chris you're back from Toronto. You were there for several days.

I'm sure you're very tired. How are you? How was the festival broad reactions before we get into any specific movies?

You know, it was it was interesting. It was weird. You know, I obviously didn't go to TIF last year,

pretty much no one did, because they did it almost entirely virtual.

This year, they had sort of a hybrid thing

where it was virtual and in person, although pretty much all the big movies were only in

person because that's how they get you. I was, you know, it was interesting. I love Film Festivals. I love TIF, but I got to admit I was really tired this year. I don't know if it's just because I'm like out of practice or I'm not used to being in public because of you know I haven't really done a lot over the last year

but I felt a lot more like run down than usual and I you know usually I'm able to like keep on top of my reviews, like the minute I get done seeing a movie, I'll sit down and write a review, but this year I just had, you know, I had a lot of stuff building up. It was a very weird year, but, you know, it was nice to be back. I love Toronto.

Hopefully I won't get sick. Tiff actually sent out an email today as several people saying certain screenings

they detected someone at certain screenings had COVID, they just found out.

So, you know, they say in the email, you know, because of their precautions,

because, you know, we all had to wear masks you know you enduring the movie

the risk should be low but now you know that's something we have to be aware of

so a knock on wood hopefully I I don't get sick. Yeah yeah fingers crossed for sure Chris I don't get sick. Yeah, yeah, fingers cross for sure.

Chris, I don't remember if you had really ventured out

to return to theaters in a significant way before this.

I mean, like you just mentioned, the TIF,

they allowed you to have socially distant seating in the theaters. They made everybody wear their masks and stuff.

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