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

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

| Original Score: B | Oct 29, 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

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

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

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 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

By keeping most of the action contained to the school grounds and immediate environs, director Michael Caton-Jones creates a claustrophobic atmosphere where fear can fester.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 23, 2007

By dodging cultural and political specifics in favor of a thriller-lite framework Beyond the Gates ends up serving largely as a tribute to the virtues of hindsight.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Mar 17, 2007

Tense and gut-wrenching, Beyond the Gates is a horrifying story told with grace and compassion.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 15, 2007

If its scenes of tribal violence feel overly familiar to viewers of 2004's Hotel Rwanda, its account of desperate choices made in the throes of terror remains emotionally powerful viewing.

| Mar 15, 2007

The 1994 Rwandan genocide is once again the subject of a movie. Even more so than its forerunner Hotel Rwanda, Beyond the Gates is unsparing in its depiction of that terrible time.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 15, 2007

No one would call Beyond the Gates subtle filmmaking. But the Rwandan crisis hardly calls for delicate handling, and this impassioned movie, fueled by genuine outrage, is one from the heart of director Michael Caton-Jones.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

A difficult sell because of the way it clutches its privileged white perspective. But from any perspective, the story it tells is so dramatic, so riveting, that it's impossible to maintain any judgmental distance.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 13, 2007

Director Michael Caton-Jones does a great job and John Hurt just absolutely carries the day as the moral center of the story.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2007

Convincingly revisits the horror of 1994's civil war in Rwanda.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 9, 2007

Beyond the Gates is tragedy writ large, and an indictment of the international community which did nothing to stop it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2007