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.
Canadian documentarian Ron Mann has had a long career shedding light on various subcultures, from his celebrated Comic Book Confidential, examining a dance craze in The Twist, to stoners and growers in Grass. His latest, Carmine S...
Mile 22 was practically tailor made for me. I’ve been a vocal fan of Peter Berg’s brand of mayhem, finding the likes of Deepwater Horizon or Battleship extraordinary works that viscerally thrill with a welcome economy....
Is it possible that a movie like The Meg isn’t dumb enough to be fun? Is it better to aim lower, to throw in tornadoes or genetically modified beasts or other ridiculousness to amplify the stupidity and thus, hypothetically,...
The film feels too long, running just under two hours. It has too many asides, and the bad guys never really get anything juicy to do. Yet despite these flaws, The Spy Who Dumped Me offers some genuine delight as well, fueled enti...
Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade is a sheer delight, a moving, provocative, often hilarious look at adolescence through the eyes of a girl named Kayla (Elsie Fisher). Told with a deft touch, the film is is a blemishes-and-all look ...
Daniel Goldhaber’s Cam, written by Isa Mazzei, is a provocative, intelligent thriller that also happens to be extremely seductive. It toys with eroticism and exhibitionism but never veers into the salacious or exploitational...
There are few things more pleasing than silliness done seriously, what the members of Spinal Tap famously dubbed the thin line between clever and stupid. When a movie falters in this tightrope act, it can be abysmal. It’s a ...
Blindspotting is a big, brash, oft-brilliant film by Carlos López Estrada that sets Daveed Diggs up for cinematic superstardom.
Let’s take it as fact that ABBA is one of the greatest, most infectious musical groups ever assembled, a brilliant ray of Scandinavian sunshine pop that thumps its disco beats into one’s heart. Let’s also admit t...
I half hoped that Denzel Washington’s decision to do his first sequel, teaming up yet again with director Antoine Fuqua, would somehow result in something brilliant. One never knows, we could be treated to a scintillating ac...
‘Neomanila’ is a biting, brilliant neo-noir, a cold and caustic crime thriller set in a city where the state-sponsored murder of drug dealers and users is a regular occurrence. In the near-apocalyptic setting of the Ph...
I’m sorry, ‘Sorry to Bother You’, but I just didn’t like you very much. I’m sure a lot of the problem is down to me. I saw you mid festival at Sundance earlier this year, where you were one among many...