Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
An unabashed summer movie thrill ride, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes might lack some of the depth fans appreciated in earlier entries of this rebooted sci-fi series, but …
Reviewing the creatively pieced together documentary Eno is pretty much impossible because the movie I saw will never be seen again. The film itself will keep on existing – and …
Whatever It Takes is the ideal true crime documentary.
A full list of The GATE’s reviews from this year’s 31st annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, happening in Toronto from April 25th to May 3rd.
With her directorial debut, Never Look Away, Lucy Lawless profiles the career and struggles of former CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth to dazzling, heart-stopping effect.
Grand Theft Hamlet stands as proof that sometimes even the worst and most impossible of concepts can still provide a wealth of creative freedom, fulfilment, and ingenuity.
Jennifer McArthur’s Family Tree is a fresh story told from a black perspective rarely glimpsed in ecologically minded documentaries.
The relationship between a documentary filmmaker and their subject comes under close and decidedly emotional scrutiny in 7 Beats Per Minute, Yuqi Kang’s profile of champion free-diver Jessica Lu.
Born Hungry, a documentary about restauranteur Sash Simpson, is resoundingly successful at making the viewer realize anything is possible when talent is cultivated, nurtured, and supported in the right way.
A loving and progressively minded mother looks back on her fraught relationship to her own distant maternal figure in director Laurie Townshend’s enlightening, heartfelt, and empathetic A Mother Apart.
