The Sachin Hingoo has thoughts on 4 more films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival: Frankenstein (USA, 2025); Dust Bunny (USA, 2025); Train Dreams (USA, 2025); and, The Ugly (South Korea, 2025)!

“As we enter the back half of TIFFty and the films start to almost literally run together as I go from screening to screening with often minutes between start and end times, I’m finding interesting commonalities between films that may or may not be intentional or even real. But functioning on low-single-digit hours of sleep and whatever coffee they’re giving out at the press office, they’re real to me, dammit.

To this point, I started Day 6 with two somewhat unconventional takes on the monster movie, even though one of the two is one of the earliest monster movies. But both Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein address the struggle to control one’s monsters, and if they even can or should be controlled. Both films have meticulously-designed sets and precocious leads even if I may be stretching the definition of ‘precocious’ slightly with regard to Oscar Issac’s Victor in Frankenstein. But if I’m being honest Issac reads as precocious to me in almost all of his roles.”

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