Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Ethan Hawke delivers a once in a lifetime performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart in Richard Linklater’s snappy, banter driven period piece, Blue Moon. With wide, dark eyes, a diminutive presence, …
Dandelion’s Odyssey is a visually resplendent animated adventure in the same tenor and the same level of quality as Flow and Wall-E. Focusing on a quartet of unlikely, nonverbal heroes …
You don’t need to be familiar with the beloved, short lived cult television series Nirvanna The Band The Show to understand or enjoy the giddy delights of creators Matt Johnson …
Honey Bunch is filmmaking team Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s follow-up to their previous feature Violation, which made waves at the festival back in 2020 as part of the Midnight …
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s latest effort It Was Just an Accident is an impassioned, morally fluid, darkly comedic thriller. Dabbling in genre work is a change of pace for Panahi …
Pictured above: a still from Healer. The 2025 Short Cuts programme kicks off with several shorts that speak to the various ways people carve out spaces for themselves and others …
A taut thriller that unfolds across a massive canvas with political savvy, historical relevancy, and a good amount of cheek, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Cannes award winner The Secret Agent is …
Inventive, eerie, and just a little long in the tooth, the surreal Japanese thriller Exit 8 goes around in circles, but with a purpose. An unlucky commuter (Kazunari Ninomiya) who’s …
Documentarian Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 looks at the titular author’s ability to examine the dark sides of politics, society, and mass media in ways that make him look like a …
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is a giddy, glossy, and sometimes overly reverential work of fandom. Films about other filmmakers are always subject to subjectivity, and Linklater’s look at Jean-Luc Godard …
