About Jason Gorber
Jason Gorber is a film journalist and member of the Toronto Film Critics Association. In addition to his work for High-Def Digest he is the Managing Editor of ThatShelf.com, the Features Editor at DTK Magazine and a regular contributor for POV Magazine and Cineplex.com. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Screen Anarchy, Birth.Movies.Death, IndieWire and more. He has appeared on CTV NewsChannel, CBC, CP24, RogerEbert.com and many other broadcasters.
Since the early 1980s, Chinese director Chen Kaige has made films that have played to international audiences. His most celebrated was 1993’s Palme d’Or winner Farewell My Concubine. He’s delved into historical d...
Red Joan is little more than a cheap bait-and-switch. The film promises a meaty, spy-themed drama starring Dame Judi Dench only to have the rug pulled out by focusing instead on a dreary, predictable tale told almost entirely in f...
Broadly speaking, High Life continues Claire Denis’ exploration of the human condition, focusing on notions such as redemption, sacrifice, violence and compulsions. What makes it unique in her filmography is that this is the...
Fans of Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 Chilean film Gloria may be perturbed to find the director retreading old grounds. Gloria Bell at times feels like a shot-for-shot remake with an English cast headed by Julianne Moore.
Christina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage is a film of great beauty and great brutality. It crafts a deeply moving tale of one family’s rise and fall as a crime empire in the desert-like sands of Colombia.
Jamie Bell stars in Donnybrook as Jarhead Earl, an ex-Marine with a penchant for violence. He wants one last bare-knuckled victory to gain enough cash to escape with his family from their impoverished circumstances. When Earl come...
In Boy Erased, Joel Edgerton directs a coming-of-age drama about conversion therapy, the dubious and often destructive practice of attempting to “cure” homosexuality through a combination of half-baked psychological pr...
Free Solo is an exemplary documentary about the act of ropeless cliff face climbing. The film introduces audiences to this particularly impressive/insane sport where the limits of concentration and endurance are brought to bear on...
It may be heresy to say, but David Gordon Green’s version of Halloween isn’t just better than the (overpraised) original, it’d work perfectly well if it were a standalone film that toyed with general slasher movi...
Zhang Yimou has lost favor of late with international audiences. His latest film, Shadow, manages to reclaim a bit of that luster.
Beautiful Boy is a powerful true story about the effects of addiction that never quite settles into the film it tries to be. On the one hand, it’s commendable that it never devolves into histrionics where the melodrama of th...
It’s simple to pitch Firecrackers as “Canadian Honey,” a Canuck take on similar turf that Andrea Arnold covered with her celebrated (but flawed) 2016 drama American Honey. As films about fiery young women coming ...