TIFF Film Report Card: What We’ve Seen (So Far!)

Ramin Bahrani’s At Any Price follows midwestern seed farmer Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid) who wants nothing more than to have his son Dean (Zac Efron) take over the family business. But Dean has other plans: to become a professional racecar driver. While the plot has dramatic spikes, the pacing could use more gas. As for the acting: Efron is a scene-stealer as an angry and rebellious farm boy, but even Quaid’s on-point acting doesn’t make up for the excessive farm seed talk.