Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
The complex and impassioned documentary 40 Years a Prisoner builds an impactful history lesson about racism in America around an infamous incident of police violence and one son’s tireless efforts …
Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide is a pleasing and insightful documentary that gives an overlooked icon in the world of pop surrealism their proper due.
Survival Skills is a film that I appreciate because of what it’s trying to accomplish, and not because of the ways it’s going about conveying an important and impassioned message.
A slight, but truthful examination of trauma, writer-director Zeina Durra’s austere drama Luxor is a simple story told with a small amount of spiritual power.
In these troubling times, I can see the need for crowd pleasing, escapist, uplifting fare and gentle tearjerkers, but the unnecessarily fluffy romantic drama All My Life is pushing it.
An intelligently crafted, mind-bending, and dramatically satisfying look into the dark underbelly of the creative process, Black Bear isn’t the type of film that caters well to those looking for …
Triggered is the type of movie that’s so enamoured with its own concept that it ultimately ends up running things into the ground long before it starts wrapping up its …
Fear of Dancing starts off as one man’s attempt to understand his own unusual hang-ups, but branches out to look at why people develop phobias in the first place.
It’s often a dubious sign when a film about a real life icon starts with a title card saying “What follows is (mostly) fiction,” and that’s precisely the wrong foot …
Funny Boy, Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of the 1994 bestselling novel by Shyam Selvadurai, is a mostly successful drama that works well when at its best, but occasionally delivers …
