One of the most remarkable things about Beyond the Gates is its refreshingly positive view of the role that faith can play even in the darkest of times.
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03/16/07
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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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Reviews for Beyond the Gates
Tense and gut-wrenching, Beyond the Gates is a horrifying story told with grace and compassion.
03/15/07
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 CriticThe 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.
03/15/07
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
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 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.
03/13/07
A relentlessly-grim reminder of how the world simply watched when it would have been so easy to put an end to the madness.
03/12/07
Director Michael Caton-Jones does a great job and John Hurt just absolutely carries the day as the moral center of the story.
03/12/07
Top CriticCaton-Jones' dramatization of an all-too-real story carries an authenticity that often makes it difficult to bear, particularly when one considers that much the same thing is now occurring in the Sudan.
03/09/07
This depressing if worthy drama can only really scratch the surface of a tragedy that remains unfathomable both for its savagery and for the sheer indifference of the outside world.
03/09/07
Convincingly revisits the horror of 1994's civil war in Rwanda.
03/09/07
Top CriticBeyond the Gates is tragedy writ large, and an indictment of the international community which did nothing to stop it.
03/09/07
Top CriticFlawed but worthwhile.
03/09/07
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
Trumps Hotel Rwanda in its you-are-there immediacy and unflinching gaze.
03/08/07
Top CriticI 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 CriticThe greatest failure of the film is its inability to enter into the lives of the Rwandans, Tutsi and Hutu alike.
03/07/07
Top CriticThe bigger political issues and the refusal of the Western world to intervene gnaw at the edges of this movie throughout, but it is really the human portraits of the people that keep you engrossed.
03/07/07
Top CriticBeyond the Gates, with its lack of sentimentality, its tough criticism of U.N. inaction, and its cast and crew filled out with real survivors, does nicely [as a retelling of the Rwandan genocide of 1994].
03/07/07
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