Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Director Peter Lynch embarks into new, dark territory for his first narrative feature-length film, the neo-noir murder mystery, Birdland. The acclaimed documentarian has spent decades crafting films like Project Grizzly, …
We sit down with Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi, the writer-director of the award winning feature film Ava to talk about how the film has been perceived in Iran and abroad, …
Maze Runner: The Death Cure is one of the worst franchise films ever created, and a fitting sendoff to one of the worst overall franchises in movie history.
The endearingly weird and strange Birdland feels like a bunch of hard-boiled genre throwbacks cobbled together, but presented with a modernist sheen, and damned if it isn’t supremely entertaining.
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar this year, filmmaker Ziad Doueiri’s incendiary and often obvious courtroom drama The Insult has a lot of great performances and an easy …
The documentary Free Lunch Society makes the concept of a guaranteed, unconditional source of income for everyone on planet Earth sound like a capital idea, but Austrian filmmaker Christian Tod …
The slight and passive survival thriller Monolith has a plot that would feel right at home in a made-for-television movie, which makes perfect sense considering that it has already premiered …
I woke with a burning in my soul to scream, GO BE. To the women who have come before, those emerging now and those that will continue to create, I …
Gently skewering biopic conventions in a manner befitting the film’s witty, yet unreliable protagonist, A Futile and Stupid Gesture offers some hearty laughs before turning heartfelt and serious, mostly without …
Ava, the first feature film from Iranian born and Montreal based writer-director Sadaf Foroughi, is a powerful work of great cultural and political significance.
