There's a fine performance from John Hurt as a Catholic priest who gives shelter to fugitives in his school, and at the end we're introduced to various survivors of the tragedy who worked on the film.
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01/20/07
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:31-03-2006
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
Not only does Shooting Dogs have something worthwhile to say, it's also incredibly important. That cinema has dared to challenge the truth of the Rwandan genocide is to be celebrated.
04/08/06
There's no way this story could ever have made a bad film, but a script that refuses sentimentality and fine acting elevate it just short of greatness.
04/01/06
Top CriticWhere Hotel Rwanda was slick and professional, Shooting Dogs is both more earnest and more awkward.
04/01/06
Top CriticCaton-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
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
Top CriticEarthier and more rough-edged than Hotel Rwanda
11/02/05
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10/29/08
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
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