Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
The Wedding Banquet, while not a perfect film, is a best case scenario for a remake. It’s a remake that’s so well thought out and reimagined that one quickly forgets… …
Michel Brault’s 1974 blending of drama and documentary, Orders (Les Ordres) became one of the finest and most incendiary films in Canadian history almost immediately upon release. A stark, unflinching …
Every generation will have movies and television series that will play up to their sense of nostalgia for a bygone era of their youth. Kids from the 1980s are certainly …
The 15th delicious year of Devour! The Food Film Fest is set to celebrate Montreal’s vibrant culinary scene, and much more, from October 20 to 26, 2025 in Wolfville, Nova …
Warfare, a collaboration between filmmaker Alex Garland and Iraqi War veteran and cinematic military adviser Ray Mendoza, is a bracing, intense work of experimental filmmaking. Based on the recollections of …
Sacramento is a rare kind of low key comedy. It’s a charming film about people who aren’t inherently charming. One of them thinks he’s charming, but that’s not the same …
Although it boasts a handful of memorable, entertaining moments, the espionage/revenge thriller The Amateur suffers from an identity crisis. Stuck somewhere between being a clone of Three Days of the… …
You’ll be tempted to think a lot during Christopher Landon’s twisty, briskly paced thriller Drop, but you really shouldn’t. A resourceful thriller built around someone trying to decipher which restaurant… …
Canadian filmmaker Paul Lynch’s 1973 first feature The Hard Part Begins looks like how whiskey neat and stale beer smells. That’s a compliment given the chosen profession of the main …
A monumental epic from the silent film era, director Rex Ingram and screenwriter June Mathis’ 1921 adaptation of Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse …
