Movies about Africa often fall into this trap. Righteous indignation is the exclusive province of non-Africans.
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03/31/07
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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.
Theatrical Release:Mar 9, 2007 Limited
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
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03/31/07
I think Beyond the Gates is an important film, and it's too bad that it's not a very good one.
03/07/07
Top CriticA passion project for those involved, it is angry and earnest and highlights an episode the international community have never quite dealt with: how it sat back and watched as thousands of Africans were killed.
03/21/06
History tells us there was no happy ending in Rwanda, and "Shooting Dogs" is not an easy picture to watc
08/10/06
at its center is a core of bitter outrage that will leave at least some viewers in stunned, heart-stopping dismay by the time the lights go up
03/08/07
Beyond the Gates takes an unflinching look at the start of the Rwandan genocide.
07/13/08
In spite of heartfelt performances from John Hurt and Hugh Dancy, director Michael Caton-Jones ("Scandal") keeps an arm's distance from his volatile subject and fails to expand on an epic tragedy that is being replicated in places like Darfur.
03/05/07
The movie does suggest that Joe's ignorance and sense of privilege, however honorable his intentions, make a dangerous combination.
03/17/07
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
...uncompromising...
09/18/05
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.
03/15/07
Top CriticHonest and moving, 'Beyond the Gates' is the best film to date about the slaughter of a million and displacement of hundreds of thousands in Africa.
03/03/07
Treads similar territory as Hotel Rwanda but successfully fills-in the blanks. A fine and welcome addition to the recent wave of African dramas.
03/06/07
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.
03/15/07
Flawed but worthwhile.
03/09/07
With other African-oriented dramas making the noted rounds it's definitely warranted for "Beyond the Gates" to tell it like it is...in all shades of dimming black and white.
03/13/07
A compelling drama about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and the moral heroism of a compassionate priest.
03/30/07
Caton-Jones orchestrates the spiralling violence with considerable dexterity, revealing a keen understanding of how, in the wrong circumstances, human beings can and do inflict the most barbaric cruelties upon one another.
03/30/06
For all its righteous (and rightful) anger, Shooting Dogs is itself a curiously detached and compromised experience, unfolding stubbornly from the perspective of its white characters.
09/24/05
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