Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
With a career defining performance from Lucy Liu in the lead and an outstanding feature debut turn from Lawrence Shou to support her, Eric Lin’s tragic, melancholic, and devastating drama …
The phone of Primate writer-director Johannes Roberts starts blowing up part way through our interview, somewhat expectedly due to the timing of the conversation. At the exact moment when we …
Macedonian filmmaker Georgi M. Unkovski’s first feature DJ Ahmet is a gentle, unforced kind of crowd pleaser that relies on a refreshing amount of simplicity and realism. A tale of …
The Plague is a haunting young adult drama, but it isn’t expressly about any sort of disease. Nor is it, strictly speaking, a sports movie that takes place in the …
The Australian post-apocalyptic zombie movie riff We Bury the Dead exists in a strange, but interesting space. It’s not pulse pounding or gory in ways that genre buffs would find …
Film buffs could use some positivity right about now. With so much talk happening about mergers, the decline of the moviegoing experience, the ever looming spectre of AI, a variety …
2025 was a great year for movies. It was so great, in fact, that tomorrow I have my list of the 100 best films of the year dropping. There was …
The soapy throwback thriller The Housemaid is the most pleasant and infectious surprise of the crowded holiday movie season. A pitch perfect blend of suspense, camp, and crowd rousing high …
Although Avatar: Fire and Ash is yet another gorgeous looking technical achievement from director and co-writer James Cameron, this third instalment in his boundary pushing franchise is a major letdown …
For his first feature film, Dust Bunny, television veteran Bryan Fuller attacks the screen like a man possessed. A visual phantasmagoria of styles, tones, colours, sounds, and focused absurdism, Dust …
