We Are Back In Person At TIFF

 

Editor's Note: For the seventh consecutive year, Dawn and The Husband will be spending a few nights attending the Toronto International Film Festival, known to the locals as TIFF. While they can now proudly call themselves seasoned veterans of this madness, they have scaled back their viewing opportunities due to recent bouts with Covid and the fact that the TIFF website is a colossal shitshow, causing them to totally screw up our package. The roster of films is back up to pre-pandemic levels but is disappointingly sparse this year on digital viewing. Therefore, there will only be three films screened. Sitting through a two to three-hour film while masked is not ideal, but we do it in the name of normalcy and entertainment.  TIFF still serves as a tremendous distraction from the world's ills and allows for some much-needed escapism during these tumultuous times. The next several posts will focus exclusively on TIFF and will offer very short bullet point reviews for the movies seen. You've all been warned.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is the most fun I've spent in a movie theatre in three years. It is also the only time I have spent in a movie theatre in three years. Rian Johnson's sequel to his 2019 sleeper hit Knives Out is a loving homage to Agatha Christie with a touch of Monty Python thrown in for good measure. I will not spoil it in any way except to say that the cast is first-rate, the story is wonderfully entertaining and Daniel Craig is marvellous once again as the loquacious detective Benoit Blanc. To say more would be to ruin the fun and the numerous surprises that pop up throughout the film. 

Netflix is the producer of this movie, so my guess is that it will have a debut on the streaming site within months. Rush to your televisions or computers to watch it and please, please, please, refrain from reading any press or spoilers. It will destroy the film. I don't even want to tell you who is in it. Enjoy it as a Glass Onion virgin. And, if you haven't yet seen the original, what the hell are you waiting for. Movies like these are rare these days.

Dawn and The Husband give Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery two enthusiastic YUPS!