Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
A messy, overly convoluted, and ultimately disappointing sci-fi/horror mash-up, Project Ithaca takes a kernel of an original and novel idea, bogs it down with cliches, and talks more about how …
Ma, a silly B-movie thriller from prestige picture director Tate Taylor (The Help, Get On Up) and starring Octavia Spencer as a murderous middle aged woman terrorizing a group of …
Halston is a flashy, stylish, decently entertaining, but also resoundingly hollow documentary about a high fashion icon who valued his privacy and even in death refuses to be overly analysed.
A sweet, low key, and complex romance, Photograph finds writer-director Ritesh Batra returning to his native India after a couple of forays into English language cinema with a renewed sense …
Always Be My Maybe is the best case scenario for a predictable romantic comedy where any savvy viewer will know every single thing that will happen from the second the …
The mediocre and largely forgettable Canadian comedy Sorry for Your Loss blandly mashes together a bunch of easily digestible cliches about life, death, and family, jokes that are deliberately made …
The biggest problem with Godzilla: King of the Monsters, other than its complete and utter contempt for wonderment or originality, is the ridiculous belief that the viewer should care about …
Rocketman is possibly the best full-on musical phantasmagoria about a famous person destroying and reclaiming their life since Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz.
Anyone interested in figuring out how constructive and meaningful film criticism works will get a nifty primer from Jeffrey McHale’s equally playful and intelligent documentary You Don’t Nomi, a deep …
Linda Goldstein Knowlton’s documentary We Are the Radical Monarchs is the inspirational and aspirational story of a group of adults and kids from California’s bay area who’ve created an inclusive, …
