Film reviews, interviews, and previews from The GATE including annual coverage of the Academy Awards, Toronto International Film Festival, and more.
A pleasingly strange comedy, writer-director Nicolas Bedos’ La Belle Epoque takes a somewhat familiar high concept and applies it to the story of two men who are growing older, but …
A bittersweet and sometimes harrowing meshing of young love and adult anxieties, filmmaker Oualid Mouaness’ first feature 1982 takes some time to get going, but hits every note perfectly once …
Milos Forman’s multiple Oscar winning Amadeus is not only one of the best films made about professional jealousy and classical music, it’s also – rather uniquely – a young person’s …
A humdrum and predictable post-World War II melodrama, The Last Vermeer is far from a work of art.
Chaotic, borderline incoherent, and only showing fleeting moments of cheesy fun, the big budget Chinese action thriller Vanguard would be a lot more enjoyable if it didn’t take its ridiculousness …
Covering already well documented and adapted ground in an entertaining and innovative way, The Real Right Stuff is a familiar history lesson told in captivating fashion.
One of the most layered, best performed, technically complex, and thoroughly convincing dramas of the year, director and co-writer Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal is an absolute powerhouse of a …
Romanian filmmaker Alexander Nanau’s eye opening documentary Collective is an unprecedented journalistic endeavour that observes and exposes the sort of large scale governmental frauds that should leave citizens rightfully outraged.
The biggest problem with filmmaker R.J. Cutler’s documentary Belushi is that there’s already too much information out there about its subject.
A powerful and unbearably moving adaptation of one of the greatest single volumes ever written about racism and what it means to be black in America, Between the World and …
