Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Journey to Bethlehem, a musical retelling of the events leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ, dully plods along on a wave of cheap production and unmemorable songs.
No matter where (or even if) iconic Quebecois filmmaker and satirist Denys Arcand’s career goes from this point onward, his eleventh film Testament – which has all the hallmarks of …
Chrisann Hessing’s profound and complex documentary We Will Be Brave seeks to challenge commonly held views about masculinity through the collective viewpoints of racialized male identifying and non-binary persons struggling …
A richly detailed and ingeniously constructed examination into the ways we fear becoming our own parents, Fawzia Mirza’s first feature, The Queen of My Dreams (which opened the 2023 Reel …
A sparse, but fascinating three way South Korean character study, Joongha Park’s Small Fry is an intimate examination of three creative types with vastly different personalities and unspoken connections to …
The Marvels is a film that does ten things wrong for every three things it gets perfectly right, but in the grand scheme of things it still remains rather light …
A social allegory and romance built around literal pits of human excrement, Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto’s Okiku and the World isn’t for the squeamish, but it still manages to be …
Writer-director Teresa Sutherland’s first feature behind the camera, Lovely, Dark, and Deep starts off in an intriguing place before going nowhere slowly.
Director Joe Lynch delivers a love letter to both late genre icon Stuart Gordon and writer H.P. Lovecraft with his frantically paced and wildly amusing genre romp Suitable Flesh.
The Deep Dark, a French survival thriller that took the Feature Film Silver Prize at this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival, is an assuredly intense and exceptionally directed take …
