Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Nowhere close to the film it’s being marketed as, the prehistoric survival drama Alpha remains a gorgeously photographed and surprisingly ambitious studio picture.
For her first narrative feature, Skate Kitchen (opening this weekend at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto and on August 24 in Vancouver and Montreal) award winning filmmaker Crystal Moselle followed …
Coming across as a macho, meat-headed take on Mission: Impossible, director Peter Berg’s bloody, hyperactive action thriller Mile 22 entertains by never taking itself too seriously.
Susanna Nicchiarelli’s eye opening and refreshingly atypical biopic Nico, 1988 looks at a music icon that died far too young without pitying its flawed subject.
Picking up the first ever audience award at this year’s Toronto Jewish Film Festival, the Spanish language drama The Last Suit predictably, but assuredly balances a story of an elderly …
A charming throwback to the sort of snappy, high concept teen movies that peppered the 80s and 90s, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before might not be the best …
For her unique, personal, and warm-hearted documentary Maison du Bonheur (opening at TIFF Bell Lighbox in Toronto this Frday), Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz took a brave leap of faith and …
An intelligently constructed and refreshingly equitable use of often easily botched romantic comedy standards, Crazy Rich Asians elevates what could have been a trite crowd pleaser into something vibrant and …
A film made for basically no one, Slender Man emerges from the multiplex mire as not only a lock to be one of the worst films of the year, but …
The Crescent is one of the most moving and subtly chilling supernatural thrillers of recent memory, and considering its competition in that category, such a statement definitely points to a …
