Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
The subtle, melancholic period drama Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool lovingly recreates a footnote in theatrical and cinematic history with great poignancy and poise.
Better as a dark family drama than as a twisting mystery, the Canadian indie-noir Hollow in the Land has just enough great ideas to be intriguing, and a commanding lead …
This has been… a year. There are almost no words to describe the heartbreak and hope and anger that has taken over our lives, yet when I gathered with a …
A lacklustre bit of entertainment so light weight that it already comes in evaporated form, the dreadful Forever My Girl fails as a tearjerker, a romance, and a story of …
There’s not much in the heist drama Den of Thieves that hasn’t been said or done better or more elaborately in dozens of other similarly themed films.
While 12 Strong doesn’t reinvent the war film template, this suitably rousing, intelligent, witty, and well told story contains more than a few surprises that make the film’s unceremonious inclusion …
One doesn’t need to have a passion for or encyclopedic knowledge of Scottish folk tunes to enjoy the engaging, humorous, and uplifting documentary Where You’re Meant to Be. That’s good …
Writer and director Scott Cooper’s Hostiles isn’t one of the worst films ever made, but it’s one of the worst kinds of films: a self-important, plodding, and basic diatribe about …
The winner of this year’s Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Germany’s official selection for this year’s Oscars, In the Fade deserves more credit for the direction …
While it’s likely to make some nostalgic for Barack Obama’s presidency and simpler, less contentious times in American politics, Greg Barker’s fly-on-the-wall documentary The Final Year feels like a missed …
