Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
It’s clobbering time, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps kicks off Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with new faces, stories, and drama. So is it the summer blockbuster …
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a lot like walking into a fast food restaurant that got a fancy new remodelling and redesign. You’re curious to check out everything while …
Cloud is another successful and intelligently made genre thriller from veteran Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who well into his career still finds new ways of reinventing himself. Part slow burning …
Embeth Davidtz’s first feature as a writer and director, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, is a well intentioned look at colonizer history in Africa that falls short of …
The legacy sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer is caught between a rock and a hard place. For starters, it’s a rebooting of a film that was simply …
The aggressively mediocre, unimaginative, and low effort rebooting of Smurfs is the ultimate in nap-time cinema for the youngest possible crowd. Offering absolutely nothing to any demographic over the age …
Ari Aster’s sprawling, messy, and chaotic Eddington is a flawed exercise in dualities. An unapologetically political film about the erosion of American politics that tries also to be apolitical, Eddington …
The sleazy, lurid 1982 law and order thriller Vice Squad is a film that’s both dated and ahead of its time. Depending on what lens you choose to view it …
Petra Costa’s new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics functions as a continuation and sidebar to her previous film, the chilling, complex, and Oscar nominated The Edge of Democracy. That film …
British filmmaker James Jones’ kinetic documentary Antidote is as close as one can get to the fire and ire of the Russian regime without getting burned. An intimate look at …
