A full list of The GATE’s reviews from this year’s 31st annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, happening in Toronto from April 25th to May 3rd.
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Acclaimed and varied filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s romantic sports melodrama Challengers deftly skirts along the razor’s edge of high art and even higher camp.
Alex Garland’s Civil War is an ideologically messy, but undeniably novel bait and switch.
Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man is uneven in ways similar to other debut features. While the star, co-writer, and director is able to create some dazzling images, powerful subtext, …
The best film in the Omen franchise since… well, the first… Omen, this prequel resurrects the series and brings it to new heights in the process.
Loud, silly, and satisfying, Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire continues the Mosnterverse franchise with giddy, destructive glee.
The weakest film in a disjointed, but usually likeable franchise by a wide margin, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a cynical, shallow, hopeless bit of filmmaking that doesn’t care about having …
Road House, a remake of an 80s testosterone fuelled action picture that has maintained cult status for decades, is dumb as a box of rocks, and I’m positive that fans …
An effectively eerie and sometimes shocking bit of religiously coded paranoia horror, Immaculate treads on familiar hallowed ground, but does so with confidence and competence.
Director, writer, star, and “documentary subject” Cody Lightning takes a simple storytelling premise viewers already know and turns it into something hilariously personal with his behind the scenes mockumentary Hey, …