Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Monrovia, Indiana finds legendarily rigorous documentarian Frederick Wiseman travelling to America’s heartland and taking the continually quickening pulse of the country’s white middle class.
Cinematic history is littered with abandoned, cancelled, unfinished, indefinitely shelved, or lost projects that have obscured major talents with ambitious ideas and potentially game changing perspectives from mainstream acclaim and …
Based on the true story of one of the strangest forgery and fraud cases to involve a semi-famous person in American history, director Marielle Heller’s dark comedy Can You Ever …
The Canadian comedy Room for Rent is an easygoing, funny, but not altogether complex story of an unlikable, washed up protagonist going head to head with an even more unlikable …
Bone chilling and eye opening, director Kimberly Reed’s Dark Money exposes the frequently sickening truth behind American political campaign finance and why it’s so hard to reform a hopelessly broken …
Mid90s, the gritty, purposefully un-PC directorial debut of actor Jonah Hill, is the rare sort of nostalgia trip that’s tinged with more mortification and subtle regret than an open embrace …
A unique and rigorous look at the weight of fame and the burden of expectation, Tom Volf’s documentary Maria by Callas, a look into the life and career of opera …
Strained, laboured, and drenched in buckets of its own flop sweat, Johnny English Strikes Again is an almost offensively awful and dispiritingly cynical sequel that few people (outside of Europe) …
While plenty of films and stories have been crafted about families struggling to make the right logistical and emotional decisions when loved ones are in the throes of potentially terminal …
Hopelessly predictable, but not altogether lacking in overall entertainment value, Hunter Killer mashes up no less than three different kinds of militaristic thrillers into a single overly familiar package.
