Review of Toronto International Film Festival | I think the festival is a rip-off:

4 years ago

I think the festival is a rip-off:

I think the festival is a rip-off:
- seeing one movie costs $25
- tickets can't be printed at home
- tickets have to be picked up in one given location, which is not necessarily the cinema where you're seeing the movie
- tickets have to be picked up before 7 pm, otherwise you can only get the ticket for the movie you're seeing that day
- if you don't arrive sufficiently early in advance you can miss your movie because they start re-selling tickets for people in the rush line
- in spite of all that, of course there are no reimbursements

I went to Toronto from Kitchener on a Friday and stayed over the weekend just for the festival. Although I left 4 hours in advance I missed my movie because I had to pick up my tickets outside of the movie theatre, due to the crazy traffic in Toronto on Fridays.

The movies I got to see were great. But I could have seen them later, at home or in a movie theatre. I will not attend the festival again, just because I don't want to support TIFF for its organization and rip-off culture.