This morning I asked World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy about the best films he’d seen thus far the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, and he listed six — Alexander Payne‘s The Holdovers, Richard Linklater‘s Hit Man, Cord Jefferson‘s American Fiction, Azazel Jacobs‘ His Three Daughters, Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Boy and the Heron and Kristoffer Borgli‘s Dream Scenario.
HE: “The Holdovers and Hit Man aside, would you describe the other three as triples, homers, ground rule doubles or line-drive singles?”
Ruimy: “I think they’re all triples or homers.”
A couple of hours later Ruimy listed 12 allegedly top-tier films hat he’d seen in Toronto — the above six plus Michel Franco‘s Memory (HE automatically endorses all Michel Franco films), Errol Morris‘s The Pigeon Tunnel (which I saw and loved in Telluride), Kitty Green‘s The Royal Hotel (Australian outback animals making life hell for two female bartenders….forget it), Bertrand Bonello‘s The Beast, Harmony Korine‘s Aggro Dr1ft (forget it), and Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour.