Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
A sequel that intelligently and ambitiously outdoes its predecessor by a country mile, Smile 2 takes the clever ideas behind returning writer-director Parker Finn’s original concept and runs wildly and …
A top form performance from Michael Keaton and a handful of great ideas help to elevate the otherwise predictable family drama Goodrich.
The creators of the darkly comedic family adventure Bookworm have a great idea for a movie, but maybe they weren’t the right people to execute their own material.
Although hampered by an off-kilter sense of pacing and structure, the historical and spiritually tinted true crime documentary Monkey on a Stick offers a head-spinning deep dive into the darker …
A work of heartbreaking emotion, honest inspiration, and unparalleled documentary filmmaking, director Benjamin Ree’s The Remarkable Life of Ibelin taps into an unlikely source of visual and human inspiration that …
Talking We Live In Time and the film’s emotional intelligence, heart, wit, and chemistry with star Andrew Garfield and director John Crowley.
Director and co-writer Jason Reitman on how the idea for Saturday Night came to be, Lorne Michael’s blessing, and the characters.
Although it ends up taking on far more baggage then necessary for something that’s mining already familiar territory, animated adventure The Wild Robot is a consistently heartwarming, visually stunning, and …
Francis Ford Coppola’s anticipated, largely self financed, and already highly divisive epic Megalopolis is an odd duck to say the least, but I’m sure the veteran filmmaker wouldn’t have wanted …
The teen sports drama Rez Ball follows a familiar, but solid template to weave a story about an indigenous community that lives and breathes basketball.
