Mila Kunis, from left, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, and Cailee Spaeny attend the premiere of "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" at TIFF Saturday.

The frantic, star-studded, chaotic, and largely discombobulating opening weekend of the Toronto International Film Festival’s 50th edition clarified a few key things for both the state of Canada’s glitziest cultural organization and the larger Hollywood ecosystem it seeks to represent.

First: Torontonians love lines. Everywhere you went along Festival Street, the closed-to-traffic stretch of King West, there were glorious, never-ending queues. Lines for free noodles, free chocolate, free sushi, and not-remotely-free DVDs from the Criterion Mobile Closet, which saw bystanders waiting their entire day for the chance to shop and snap s

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