Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Heartwarming and packed to bursting with visual ingenuity, tearjerking moments, and sharp humour, Elio is one of Pixar’s absolute best. While indebted to the kinds of sci-fi comedy templates and …
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s long awaited 28 Years Later is an unexpected surprise, in both good and bad ways. But whether or not it connects with those who waited …
Everything goes wrong that could go wrong in the action-comedy Bride Hard, and I’m not talking about the on screen events that set its plot into motion. Devoid of anything …
Simon Ennis’ endearing documentary The Hobby: Tales from the Tabletop offers both hardcore board-gamers and the uninitiated a warm hearted overview of one of the world’s oldest and most beloved …
The original How To Train Your Dragon is a classic animated film, so how good is the new live action remake next to that?
It’s very tempting to just say that the live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon – made by the same filmmaker who made the animated version – is …
Celine Song’s Materialists is a once in a lifetime sort of romance film that has studied, updated, and elevated the greats of the genre. Bittersweet, perceptive, swooning, sometimes hilarious, and …
Writer-director Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck is bound to be critically divisive, and the movie itself is okay with that. Self-aware of its own corniness and desire to be …
Filmmaker Reza Dahya’s first standalone feature Boxcutter is a creative drama steeped in artistic freedom and struggle. As its protagonists bounce around across a variety of different Toronto locations on …
The animated hybrid documentary Endless Cookie makes a lot of great points about the nature of extended family and Canada’s fraught relationship to indigenous peoples in the most relaxed, visually …
