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10/29/08
Beyond the Gates (2007)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:49
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Complex, human characters and on-location shooting give Beyond the Gates palpable tension and urgency.
Synopsis: Joe Connor has come to teach in Rwanda because he believes he can make a difference. When the school becomes a haven for thousands of Rwandans fleeing the genocide, Joe promises his brightest... [More]
Starring: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Nicola Walker
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Reviews for Beyond the Gates
Beyond the Gates takes an unflinching look at the start of the Rwandan genocide.
07/13/08
This is a spiritual drama, not a political one, drawing a thick line between our good intentions and the selfish choices we ultimately make.
01/04/08
It simply presents, and assumes that we have the inherent morality to understand that what we are watching is evil.
09/20/07
Though less reassuring and not as dramatically coherent as Hotel Rwanda, it still packs a hard punch.
08/11/07
Top CriticThe film grinds inexorably toward its unsurprising and terrible conclusion with infinite grace but no real suspense.
06/01/07
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.
06/01/07
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03/31/07
Movies about Africa often fall into this trap. Righteous indignation is the exclusive province of non-Africans.
03/31/07
Make sure you sit through the credits to learn about the victims who survived and worked on this film ---- extraordinary!
03/30/07
The film chronicles man's inhumanity to man during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, (where) selflessness and selfishness stand side by side ----
03/30/07
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.
03/30/07
A compelling drama about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the moral heroism of a compassionate priest.
03/30/07
A gripping, terrifying, profoundly touching human drama that's definitely worth seeing.
03/29/07
A gripping fictionalized account of a 1994 incident in Rwanda that became a shocking emblem of the Rwandan Hutus' mass slaughter of the Tutsis.
03/29/07
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.
03/23/07
Instead of the latest major studio flummery, do yourself a favor and see this brilliant, low-budget independent masterpiece, one that educates as well as entertains.
03/21/07
Director Michael Caton-Jones doesn't go for obvious pathos or simple outrage. He approaches the picture's theme with a documentary realism that, scene by scene, heightens the drama.
03/18/07
The movie does suggest that Joe's ignorance and sense of privilege, however honorable his intentions, make a dangerous combination.
03/17/07
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.
03/17/07
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