David Ansen Surveys Toronto 2015, from Blocked 'Amazing Grace' to Underwhelming 'The Danish Girl'

Toronto audiences are famously friendly. It’s one of the reasons studios and indies love to premiere their films in this star-crazed town, where standing ovations are the rule, not the exception. It would have been nice to hear the thunder that might have accompanied the premiere of "Amazing Grace," the Aretha Franklin documentary that was yanked from the lineup—just as it had been in Telluride—just days before the 40th Toronto International Film Festival began. This, and the mid festival cancellation of the Martin Amis adaptation "London Fields," which was embroiled in a dispute between its director and its producer over the final cut, were the rare hiccups in a...

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