Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
How do you fight real, supernatural evil? The Pope’s Exorcist is the story of Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, and it’s inspired by a real man and …
Both better than expected and not as clever as it ought to be, the sitcom level comedy Mafia Mamma is a throwback to a bygone era.
Korean-American filmmaker So Yun Um turns the camera on her family for the insightful and assuredly complex personal essay film Liquor Store Dreams.
Mexican filmmaker Sofía Auza’s gentle and low-key debut feature Adolfo (which opens the 2023 edition of the young adult friendly TIFF Next Wave Festival) boasts a quirky premise, but wins …
Charlotte Regan’s funny and heartfelt debut feature Scrapper is a tough talking, but sweet natured crowd pleaser about a little girl and an emotionally stunted man-child trying to make a …
Few filmmakers are capable of making a work that feels simultaneously laid back and stressful at the same time, but Showing Up is further proof as to why Kelly Reichardt …
When director Mathew Robbins’ Dragonslayer opened in theatres in 1981, the film was a fantasy epic that was unlike almost anything else made before it.
Intense and politically loaded, director and co-writer Daniel Goldhaber’s thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline is the sort of work that naturally leads to lumps in throats and knots …
Warm, inventive, but also overstuffed, animation legend in the making Makoto Shinkai’s latest effort, Suzume, starts and stays rather strong despite lurching towards overkill by the conclusion.
Director and co-writer Guy Ritchie’s buoyant spy caper and franchise non-starter Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is a fine enough movie to watch on a weekend afternoon when one has …
