Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Dust and Ashes, the austere first feature drama from South Korean director Park Hee-Kwon, is built around a powerful, but ultimately underdeveloped concept.
A movie with a lot on its mind and not enough time and space to express it all, Mogul Mowgli is a deliberately off-balance drama bolstered by an electrifying leading …
2020 has left many of us pining for reunions with friends and family, but the borderline unbearable and distressingly unfunny star-studded comedy Dinner with Friends might make anyone unfortunate enough …
Hilarious, empathetic, and appropriately bittersweet, the queer, Irish non-rom-com Dating Amber is one of the bigger surprises in an otherwise dull and dreary year.
A low-budget, but effective and well acted World War II drama, Recon is built on standard trappings, but will likely appeal to fans of the military melodrama genre.
An uneven, but impassioned defense of renewable energy, Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip is a documentary made by someone who’s willing to defend what they believe in, but still hasn’t fully …
The unique and often rather dark Canadian comedy The Kid Detective is the best movie of its kind since Fletch.
Across the past decade, plenty of revenge thrillers have done both their best and worst to cash in on the success of the Taken franchise, but few have been as …
Rebuilding Paradise, a documentary by veteran filmmaker Ron Howard, is a harrowing, hopeful, and ultimately vital look at human resilience, climate change, and corporate malfeasance, but mostly, it’s about people
Splinters is a beautiful, honest, and refreshingly authentic Canadian film that takes you to rural Nova Scotia for a story about family, love, relationships, and the complicated nature of sexuality.
