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Tense and gut-wrenching, Beyond the Gates is a horrifying story told with grace and compassion.Full Review

Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times

John Hurt is magnetic as a Catholic priest running a school where terrified Tutsi have taken refuge, while Hugh Dancy, as a naive teacher, represents white commitment to black Africa at its most impotent and unreliable.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

Powerful and moving.Full Review

Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle

Hurt and Dancy are terrific in these roles, but the power of the movie is in the tension created by Caton-Jones on the same sites where this historical event unfolded.Full Review

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

Hurt steals scenes with a brilliantly nuanced character, a man bitter enough to make every line delivered to his peers a challenge or an accusation, yet experienced enough to present those challenges with an ingratiating politesse that only cracks in extremis.Full Review

Tasha Robinson
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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