Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
Writer-director Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day is a film about nothing that’s really something to behold. It captures a feeling that’s hard to define; almost like you’re in a room …
La Grazia, the latest film from stylish Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino, is one of the director’s best and most reflective works to date, maybe because it’s a bit more low …
Sara Shahverdi, subject of Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s documentary Cutting Through Rocks, isn’t the stereotype of a rural Iranian woman. Often rocking a fashionable jacket and a ball-cap atop …
With Christmas just around the corner, ’tis the season for another great holiday fright to get the blood pumping, and writer-director Mike P. Nelson is here to deliver just that …
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution is going to be a strange film to talk about, and not just because I went into reviewing it with next to no prior knowledge about the …
Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz has created something both monumental and intimate with her latest feature, Measures for a Funeral. Boasting links to other works she has produced over the years …
In Jamal Burger and Jukan Tateisi’s documentary Still Single (which opens in Toronto at TIFF Lightbox this weekend), legendary, visionary, and still relatively young culinary artist Chef Masaki Saito opens …
Joseph Kahn’s batty sci-fi horror comedy Ick finds the cult favourite filmmaker and legendary music video director on familiar, combative territory, but with mixed results this time out. The director …
The Canadian drama Calorie is the kind of unsuccessful film that I don’t love writing about. In so many respects, writer-director Eisha Marjara’s film is admirable and respectable. It’s made …
Zootopia 2 is an madcap animated sequel that nicely serves as a follow-up to its highly enjoyable predecessor. It also does a fine job of aping the kinds of action …
