Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
A delightfully charming throwback to the high concept, family friendly sci-fi adventures of the 80s and 90s, UFO Sweden dazzles with good humour and big emotions.
An engaging and smartly written, Czech language sci-fi thriller, Restore Point makes the most of its limited budget by leaning heavily into film noir vibes and healthy layers of subtext.
Well executed and performed, but frequently predictable and sometimes straining credibility, the home invasion thriller The Last Exit gets by on making sure the tension is kept in all the …
Sibling Aussie filmmakers Cameron and Colin Cairnes’ inventive, eerie, and highly entertaining Late Night with the Devil (winner of the Audience Choice Award at this year’s Toronto After Dark Film …
Occasionally funny, but assuredly overlong and more convoluted than it needs to be, the East Coast Canadian comedy Who’s Yer Father? breezes along on the same wave of cultural stereotypes …
For what might be the finest film of his career thus far, The Holdovers, Alexander Payne has achieved a pitch perfect balance between his trademarked usage of cynicism and sentimentality.
Sofia Coppola’s quiet, intimate, and elegant Priscilla balances opulence and darkness in ways that only an astute filmmaker of her calibre can, offering a counterpoint to the mythology surrounding Graceland’s …
Eccentric, energetic, and frequently laugh out loud hilarious, Quiz Lady makes wonderful use of sharp writing and a pair of perfectly cast stars working against their usual type.
Director Christos Nikou’s first English language feature, Fingernails, is the worst kind of pretentious: an unoriginal idea that constantly insists its well worn concepts are deeply profound.
Bolstered by an outstanding, memorable leading performance from Colman Domingo, the biopic Rustin gives a prominent civil rights activist their proper due
