Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Bong Joon-ho’s 2003 crime thriller Memories of Murder is one of the best procedural epics ever made, ranking firmly alongside the likes of David Fincher’s Zodiac and Michael Mann’s Manhunter.
Taking Napoleon’s axiom that “glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever” to its most extreme conclusions, Nocturne is a highly entertaining and elegantly composed B-movie horror flick.
Not only is Garrett Bradley’s revolutionary documentary Time one of the best films ever made about the need for prison reform and the racist underpinnings of the American judicial system, …
A morality thriller undone by its own sense of familiarity, The Secrets We Keep is a good looking, but unengaging bore.
While it isn’t particularly chilling and no one would ever call it stylish, the half-psychological-half-supernatural thriller Evil Eye stands out thanks to some great performances, an underrepresented cultural perspective, and …
Well produced and up to the moment, Totally Under Control feels less like a great documentary and more like a dutifully assembled newsmagazine.
Although it outsmarts itself right out of the gate, the austere, elevated, and still sufficiently gruesome Canadian horror flick The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is a good example of a …
A well acted and unusually concise David versus Goliath tale, the Canadian drama Percy coasts along breezily under the strength of its own convictions.
The Forty-Year-Old Version, the debut feature from director, writer, and star Radha Blank, is as impassioned and personal as filmmaking gets, so much so that its mere existence is worthy …
Hear me out on this: Hubie Halloween, the latest Netflix comedy starring Adam Sandler, is a pretty fun time.
