A more historically accurate, yet less cinematically satisfying look at the events that unfolded in Rwanda during 1994.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B | Oct 29, 2008

Beyond the Gates takes an unflinching look at the start of the Rwandan genocide.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2008

This is a spiritual drama, not a political one, drawing a thick line between our good intentions and the selfish choices we ultimately make.

| Jan 4, 2008

It simply presents, and assumes that we have the inherent morality to understand that what we are watching is evil.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 20, 2007

Though less reassuring and not as dramatically coherent as Hotel Rwanda, it still packs a hard punch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2007

The film grinds inexorably toward its unsurprising and terrible conclusion with infinite grace but no real suspense.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 1, 2007

An intense and gripping drama that makes you realize that this page in Rwandan history deserves to be told more than once, lest history forget.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 1, 2007

The sight of one character, a pleasant soul full of love and a lust for life I couldn't help but admire, suddenly brandishing a machete, his leg covered in blood and wearing a friendly smile made ice water run straight through my veins.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2007

Movies about Africa often fall into this trap. Righteous indignation is the exclusive province of non-Africans.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 31, 2007

Make sure you sit through the credits to learn about the victims who survived and worked on this film ---- extraordinary!

Full Review | Mar 30, 2007

The film chronicles man's inhumanity to man during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, (where) selflessness and selfishness stand side by side ----

Full Review | Mar 30, 2007

There's little respite from the terrible history that this film retells just a determination (made stronger by the faces we see after the credits) to tell it, to be sure that history doesn't forget.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2007

A compelling drama about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the moral heroism of a compassionate priest.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2007

A gripping, terrifying, profoundly touching human drama that's definitely worth seeing.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 29, 2007

A gripping fictionalized account of a 1994 incident in Rwanda that became a shocking emblem of the Rwandan Hutus' mass slaughter of the Tutsis.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2007

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 26, 2007