Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 2, 2020 2.5/4.0

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

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Michael Hardy Boston Globe Nov 24, 2011 3/4

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Hank Sartin Time Out Nov 17, 2011 4/5

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Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Oct 29, 2008 B

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Christian Toto Washington Times Jul 13, 2008 3/4

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

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Jan 4, 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.

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Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Sep 20, 2007 8/10

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

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Stephen Holden New York Times Aug 11, 2007 3.5/5

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

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Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Jun 1, 2007 2.5/5

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

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Jun 1, 2007 B+

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.

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Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com Apr 12, 2007 3/4

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.

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Wesley Morris Boston Globe Mar 31, 2007 2/4

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

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Jeanne Kaplan Kaplan vs. Kaplan Mar 30, 2007

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

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David Kaplan Kaplan vs. Kaplan 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 ----

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Moira MacDonald Seattle Times Mar 30, 2007 3.5/4

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.

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Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Mar 30, 2007 4/5

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

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William Arnold Seattle Post-Intelligencer Mar 29, 2007 B+

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

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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune Mar 29, 2007 3.5/4

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

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Mel Valentin eFilmCritic.com Mar 26, 2007 5/5

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Ruthe Stein San Francisco Chronicle Mar 23, 2007 3/4

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.

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