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The Gateway

2021

Michele Civetta

Frank Grillo, Olivia Munn, Shea Whigham, Taryn Manning ...

4.7

41

Thriller. Drama A social worker assigned to the care of the daughter of a single mother intervenes when the dad returns from prison and lures them into a life of crime.

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Despite so many individual missteps making for a bumpy whole, “The Gateway” manages to go down pretty painlessly, thanks in large part to a cast as colorful as the rather flashy visual packaging"	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"It mostly resembles the sort of B-movie thriller that was a staple of ’70s-era grindhouses (...) the overall pretentiousness and lack of humor make it more of a slog than a guilty pleasure."	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"An entertaining B-movie with some quirky twists and turns (...) The screenplay is dense with crackling dialogue, and the performances are uniformly excellent (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"'The Gateway' is a bit like the movie’s drug robbery—they know how to get in, but don’t know how to get out. It’s Mr. Whigham who keeps you watching."	NEU
United Kingdom	Phil Hoad The Guardian	"Not quite credible enough to stand up as a gritty, 70s-esque social drama, and lacking the focus of the urban thriller it’s marketed as, [it] is an awkward but passably entertaining blend of both (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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