Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
The animated franchise spin-off The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim fails to capture so much as a fraction of the narrative and visual magic that made …
Oh, Canada, writer-director Paul Schrader’s latest reflection on regret and mortality, is well in line with many of his other recent efforts, but on the high side of things.
Elton John: Never Too Late is a tepid and simplistic look at a musical legend that does nothing to add or detract from its subject’s already mythical stage presence and …
Maybe it’s the deluge of Oscar bait and blockbusters-in-waiting that I have been watching over the past few weeks in gearing up for all of my holiday/year end coverage, but …
Many in Toronto knew what they were losing before it was gone, and Ali Weinstein’s observational documentary Your Tomorrow proves this fact without breaking much of a sweat or having …
Documentarian and scholar Raoul Peck’s Ernest Cole: Lost and Found enhances and smartly contextualizes the work of a photographer who was never properly appreciated throughout most of their career and …
A mixed bag of comedy and horror that never feels comfortable with either genre, Kyle Mooney’s directorial debut Y2K goes all in on nostalgia at the expense of telling a …
It takes quite a bit to make the overall gist of Homer’s legendary works uninteresting, but director Uberto Pasolini has somehow found a way to do so with the leaden …
The most personal films always have kernels of truth and wisdom that are universal, and Pete Docter believes that the answer to finding those truths is in how they make …
Danish director and co-writer Magnus von Horn’s The Girl with the Needle is a relentlessly bleak melding of true crime, anti-nostalgic history lesson, and intricate character study.
