Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Paul, the latest and perhaps most widely accessible work from Canadian filmmaker Denis Côté to date, follows the uniquely inspirational and heartfelt journey of a 34-year old man overcoming depression, …
Jueyon Yang’s moving, personal, and introspective documentary My Missing Aunt starts off by looking at familial secrets within her own family, but blossoms into a more sorrowful and sensitive examination …
Ai Weiwei’s Turandot is a majorly disappointing and thin look behind the scenes of the dissident artist’s first attempt at directing an opera, a modern retelling of Puccini’s controversial, unfinished …
Austrian filmmaker Natalie Halla’s The Last Ambassador dutifully documents one woman’s fight to stand up against a totalitarian regime in a country she loves deeply, but is unable to return …
Frank Oz’s darkly comedic 1986 musical Little Shop of Horrors is an exceptionally rare example of a film where the director’s cut and the final theatrical cut are both classics …
I unabashedly love the 1986 heavy metal and satanic panic horror movie Trick or Treat. Not to be confused with Michael Dougherty’s now iconic, but then underrated 2007 anthology film …
A whimsical and fun diversion for kids, Elli and Her Monster Team is eminently likeable and pure of heart. It’s not pushing the boundaries of animated storytelling, but it’s also …
A unique blend of a dark fairy tale with modern feminist commentary and oozy body horror elements, The Ugly Stepsister takes a classic, turns it on its head, and then …
Swiss writer-director Jasmin Gordon’s first feature The Courageous asks the viewer to fill in a lot of blanks, and in this case, that’s mostly a good thing from an intelligence …
A masterful work of historically minded, character based horror, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners hits like a wooden stake to the heart that’s been shot out of a cannon substituting jet fuel… …
