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The Girl in the River
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The Gates is a 2026 thriller film, directed by John Burr, starring Mason Gooding, Algee Smith and Keith Powers.
- 115 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon
- posts span Jul 4, 2023 to Nov 3, 2026
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 48% of 23 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 44 out of 100, based on five critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Robert Daniels of RogerEbert.com gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, "Van Der Beek keeps the film interesting and guarded, even when it tries so hard to blurt out its every theme and lesson. So while The Gates itself isn't a total smash, it's a more than sturdy final effort from a beloved actor."
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60 of 121 · most liked firstThe Name Of The Rose is such a weird fuckin movie man. How you gonna be a film director and go from Quest For Fire -> Name Of The Rose -> [...] -> Enemy At The Gates
neutral · AI labelView post →I was so mad at Enemy At The Gates that I wanted to leave the theater but couldn't because a friend drove me there. I can't remember why I hated it but I was in film school at the time so was at the height of my insufferable "I'm a critic" powers.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND is a movie about why you should never build a basement in Louisiana. (The state is built over the Gates Of Hell.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film Enemy at the Gates (2001)
neutral · AI labelView post →Darkly hilarious that just as Serious Historians had managed to convince most people that scenes like ones in the Enemy at the Gates movie (“man with the rifle shoots”) didn’t really happen, the Russian Army went “hold my vodka”.
neutral · AI labelView post →In no order Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Trout Mask Replica Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping Robert Wyatt - End Of An Ear Can - Monster Movie Joni M - Clouds Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
neutral · AI labelView post →A WWII movie about a WEIRD TALES writer drafted to the front lines, Enemy at the Gates of the Silver Key.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've understood that this has generated some controversy, especially after that scene in the movie Enemy at the Gates ("The one with the rifle shoots, the one with the ammo follows, when the one with the rifle is killed, the one with the ammo picks up the rifle!"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUQh...
neutral · AI labelView post →Honoured to be included in this short documentary on 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' by Ric Rawlins, whose film 'Wild Swimmers' explores a very different presence haunting the riverside!
neutral · AI labelView post →In no order Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Trout Mask Replica Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Dorothy Ashby - Afro Harping Robert Wyatt - End Of An Ear Can - Monster Movie Joni M - Clouds Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
neutral · AI labelView post →And the weird thing about this "Russian way of war" is that it seems to be a recent fabrication, as if they learnt war from the 2001 film, "Enemy at the Gates," which has nothing to do with how the Red Army actually fought WWII. Stalin would find today's Russian army to be brutal and wasteful.
neutral · AI labelView post →Evening Richard. I almost missed this one, but here's my #5debutalbums50s60s 1) Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates 2) Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk 3) Can - Monster Movie 4) Love - s/t 5) Country Joe - Electric Music Otis, VU, The Doors & Hendrix all came close ✌️
neutral · AI labelView post →I mean, I hear you, but there's no way the Gates mansion doesn't have a movie theater in it lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Enemy at the Gates is a superb film.
positive · AI labelView post →Just went upstairs to find my grandpa watching a movie. The screen featured what appeared to be a POV of a sniper scope and I asked “is this Enemy at the Gates?” He responded “how the hell did you know that!?” Eventually I’ll have to try to explain what the movie gets wrong about the actual history
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch: AT THE GATES Drop Album-Length Animated Film For 'The Ghost of a Future Dead' metalinjection.net/news/watch-a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film is BEYOND THE GATES (2016), a US-made horror film that has been described to me as "Cosmic horror JUMANJI." Plus, Barbara Crampton's in it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie where the characters have to go to hell through the Gates of Hell but the gates are that one Rodin sculpture in Standford
neutral · AI labelView post →especially coming out of Michael B Jordan, who is incredibly charismatic. When he dies saying "bury me with my people" you kind of think fuck man he's cool as shit. And what does the movie do after that? Tchalla opens the Gates foundation in Oakland. Wow! He's so cool.
neutral · AI labelView post →They talking about creating an All My Children movie on Lifetime?? I think folks see the success of Beyond the Gates and realize that soap operas ain't dead.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some of my favorites for 2025 Album: Here for it All (Mariah Carey) Movie: Superman New TV Show: Beyond the Gates Returning TV Show: Stranger Things 5 1/2
neutral · AI labelView post →Name this Sci-Fi movie, I’ll start: Contagion 2: The Gates Agenda The Matrix 5G
neutral · AI labelView post →Erratum: the movie and book about KKR is Barbarians at the Gate, not Enemy at the Gates which is about Stalingrad. I recommend both https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate_(film)
neutral · AI labelView post →Consequently, last night was my first time seeing The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, a chapter left out of the film version, but here, turned into a brilliantly ethereal and gently horrifying bit of folk terror. youtu.be/3iYn1CwDltQ?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Congrats to cast, crew and creatives! 'Beyond the Gates’ Scores NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Drama Series - #beyondthegatescbs #naacpimageawards More on the nominations - bit.ly/4qPpEaA
neutral · AI labelView post →I spoke with Richard Brake about his latest horror film THE GATES, THE MUNSTERS, VESPER, BARBARIAN and the forthcoming THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTRY: https://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2023/07/07/interview-richard-brake-discusses-playing-a-different-kind-of-killer-in-the-gates/
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the worst sex scene in film since Enemy at the Gates. Watch better porn, director of Blood Surf. #FrightClub #bloodsurf
neutral · AI labelView post →I would legitimately lose sleep thinking about that one teenager I worked with 11 years ago at the movie theater who actually tried to tell me that Enemy at the Gates was really how it all was on the Eastern Front, but then I remember that the marketing for it looks like this and I snore laughing:
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 17 of 31 Days of Horror Movies “Death by Board Game” with Beyond the Gates. Outside Barbara Crampton, who is delightfully chewing scenery as the VHS game character, I really didn’t care for this movie at all.
negative · AI labelView post →Where to find #FrightClub at #TheGates tonight! Prime Video: www.amazon.com/gp/video/det... Thanks to @jillbill.bsky.social for tonight's selection! And for the information that this was Van Der Beek's final film. James was a good actor, and his ability to poke fun at himself was delightful. 🕯️
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazon has announced the titles arriving on their Prime Video platform in August 2026, including original film THE LAST SUNRISE and the SVOD premiere of the thriller THE GATES. Plus, the revenge thriller IS GOD IS hits Prime Video as well. Here’s the full list: whentostream.com/heres-whats-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Not necessarily 'a lot' in the movie, but Enemy at the Gates is quite enjoyable
positive · AI labelView post →I call this the Enemy At The Gates effect. The Easten Front in WW2, unlike what was depicted in that film, was around 1.5:1 or 2:1 at most.
neutral · AI labelView post →Derek himself (Beyond the Gates) spotted on an old lifetime movie Killed Reality
neutral · AI labelView post →OPEN THE GATES - a film about land rights that @professorhanna.bsky.social and I made with Dr Elsa Noterman and Dr Camilla Penney for Cambridge Public Engagement a couple of years ago - was thinking about this with @jmatkin.bsky.social Jean Atkin poet www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7D6...
neutral · AI labelView post →This movie is just as gory and atmospheric as the Gates of Hell trilogy. It may not reach the overwhelming sense of dread from those films, but this is Fulci using every trick and technique he has honed over his career. And I think it's wonderful.
positive · AI labelView post →At The Gates Release Animated Film For ‘The Ghost Of A Future Past’ themosh.net/at-the-gates...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell is probably the worst thing to have happened in 2001. Awful film. 📽️ My ½★ review of Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell on Letterboxd boxd.it/6GCygJ 📽️ #Filmsky
negative · AI labelView post →90. Jigoku (1960) A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of MURDER, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell. #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days #HorrorSky #FilmSky #MovieChallenge Wk 44 @cinechallenges.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a war film rubbish. A Bridge Just Far Enough The Friendly Sea The Average Escape Sink The Pedalo Postman At The Gates
neutral · AI labelView post →I can see it with Willows, which crams a lot in - Cosgrove Hall did devote a whole episode to the Piper at the Gates of Dawn chapter they cut from the original TV movie. There's only one problem: doing so could mean Mister Toad doesn't show up for a lot of episode 1. AND WE WANT TOAD.
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie 35/100 Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell Or by its more honest name Wishmaster 3: Wishmaster Goes to College. Also, "Illinois" as played by Winnipeg. boxd.it/1p9S #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days
negative · AI labelView post →Enemy at the Gates (2001) i think this might be the most pro-Soviet film ever produced in the West?
neutral · AI labelView post →Thee @gtsjazz.blacksky.app is here to tell you about ‘The Gates’ before you head to the theater this weekend. horrormovieblog.com/the-gates-re...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Gates (2023), directed by Stephen Hall. John Rhys-Davies can carry this film through some of its slowest parts, but not for 110 minutes. 064/100 #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days 218/365 #Horror365Challenge
neutral · AI labelView post →EDIT: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn the Musical, the Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →#Halloween #HorrorMovieMarathon Night 19 w/ @jjjennnnn.com Lucio Fulci's CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD(1980)-🦇🦇 aka The Gates of Hell A priest hangs himself in Dunwich, MA opening the gates of Hell. A psychic & a reporter go to Dunwich on Halloween to close them. Great practical effects, tons of gore!
neutral · AI labelView post →Sharon Waxman, from Los Angeles, looks down her nose at states like Georgia in this column. Does Los Angeles's Sharon Waxman even know that Georgia is a major location for film & TV production? That Tyler Perry has studios there? That the NAACP's CBS soap Beyond the Gates is taped there?
neutral · AI labelView post →Downplay a book or movie: Frenemy at the Gates
neutral · AI labelView post →THE GATES, James Van Der Beek’s final movie, is a tense racially charged suburban thriller. Read our full review of the new movie here: screenanarchy.com/2026/03/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →INTERVIEW / Mike Manning ("Beyond the Gates") is starring in the new movie "Unexpected Treasures." Watch as he talks about his role as an alien and his experience on "Beyond the Gates." #UnexpectedTreasures #BeyondTheGates #BTG www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/10/beyo...
neutral · AI labelView post →Enemy At the Gates is absolute horseshit for this. The entire fucking film is garbage.
negative · AI labelView post →Pick one movie, keep one actor, the rest are muppets. Enemy At The Gates, keep Rachel Weisz
neutral · AI labelView post →Aaron Beyer | Thoughts on Jurassic Park 3, Beyond the Gates + What will REBIRTH mean for the upcoming film? The Jurassic Park Podcast www.jurassicparkpodcast.com/home/aaron-b...
neutral · AI labelView post →72. City of the Living Dead (1980) dir. Lucio Fulci The Gates of Hell have opened... Finding Fulci was a defining moment in my horror film watching experience. City, even more so. It's quickly become a favorite, and always do a rewatch for my birthday #31daysofhalloween #nowwatching #horrorsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a war film rubbish. Anemone At The Gates
neutral · AI labelView post →I like to joke about how random the selection process for 4K restorations/discs feels, but it's honestly very charming to find out that a seemingly-forgotten movie like ENEMY AT THE GATES or whatever actually has many passionate fans, who are so happy to see it in an ideal format :)
neutral · AI labelView post →From PARAMOUNT, I got three recently released 4Ks! Robert Altman's POPEYE (1980), and THE SAINT (1997) and ENEMY AT THE GATES (2001) 4K Steelbooks (I think THE SAINT actually came out this week...) Thoughts on each film will follow below as usual!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, absolutely. The GWOT drone campaigns might have been a bit like an office job with extra murder, but a drone movie set in Ukraine would/should be spiritually closer to things like the sniper combat in Enemy at the Gates. Hopefully with better research than Enemy at the Gates.
neutral · AI labelView post →#31DaysOfHorror Film #49 #31DaysOfHalloween THE GATES OF HELL (1980) aka: City Of The Living Dead
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