Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
With heart etched firmly on its brightly coloured sleeve, Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey places romantic earnestness and bittersweet heartache in the foreground and throws cynicism and subtlety to …
For every admirable point that the hollow tech-world biopic Swiped tries to make about being a woman in a male dominated field, the film gets bogged down in trite, inauthentic …
One of the most anticipated restorations of the year for film buffs is Kino Lorber’s successful resurrection of the grimy New York City set 1980 thriller Night of the Juggler. …
Project Y is a tense Neo-noir crime drama about two women desperately trying to change their lives with a heist that will make or break them, starring South Korea’s Han …
Another tremendous fable from legendary Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) pulls from legend and oral tradition to look at the darker, more complicated side of keeping a promise. …
Tamara Kotevska’s elegant and moving The Tale of Silyan is proof that great beauty can be found in documentary filmmaking simply by going with the flow of life. Starting in …
YouTuber turned filmmaker Curry Barker’s debut feature, Obsession, is an engaging hybrid of gory horror, earnest romance, and outrageous dark comedy that plays on classic genre tropes. An examination of …
An inventive and visually stimulating deep dive into the world of sex workers, director Nicole Bazuin and writer/subject Andrea Werhun’s expansion of their book and short film Modern Whore is …
An exceptional leading performance from Nina Kiri breathes vibrant life into Out Standing, a biopic recounting the struggles faced by Captain Sandra Perron, Canada’s first female infantry officer. Born into …
The yearning for personal connection is a common thread that runs through the six moving and deeply human shorts in TIFF’s Short Cuts Programme 02. Executive produced by Spike Lee, …
