Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
As relaxed and off-the-cuff as drinks among friends, the chatty, ruminative, and frequently funny documentary Nothing Like a Dame find four friends and British legends of stage and screen riffing …
A stunning achievement of art and emotion wrapped up in a deceptively simple story of a family on the rocks, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is the definition of a masterpiece.
A straightforward and charming look back at the career of one of the most comedic and creative minds in cinematic history, Peter Bogdanovich’s The Great Buster eloquently and delicately lays …
A delicate, complex masterwork from Turkish slow cinema auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, The Wild Pear Tree is a departure from the filmmaker’s usually formalist leanings, a gentle and intelligent bit …
An examination of the controversial relationship between art and high finance, Nathaniel Kahn’s insightful and nonjudgmental documentary The Price of Everything understands both sides of the sticky arguments being presented.
A well intentioned but ultimately unsuccessful cinematic adaptation of an award winning Canadian stage play, The Drawer Boy never comes to vibrant life or escapes the limitations of its theatrical …
Strange, unique, and almost unclassifiable into any specific genre, Swedish director Ali Abbasi’s Border boasts some of the most peculiar storytelling in any film this year.
A well meaning, but ultimately rather limp overview of gender inequality and sexual assault in the film industry, The Reckoning: Hollywood’s Worst Kept Secret is a documentary that feels like …
A film so uninspired and generic that even complaints about it will sound cliched and rehashed, the latest cinematic incarnation of Robin Hood is so vaporous that viewers will forget …
John C. Reilly returns as Wreck-It Ralph today in Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet, and I had the distinct pleasure of chatting with the star about stepping back into the …
