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.
‘Three Identical Strangers’ is a provocative, at times troubling documentary that tells a story truly stranger than fiction. A rumination on the nature/nurture divide, blind coincidence and the limits of ethical behavi...
After her 2011 ‘Winter’s Bone’ delighted audiences, received four Oscar nominations, and made a star of Jennifer Lawrence, plenty of people waited to see what would be next on the feature front for writer/directo...
In today’s climate, where calls of “fake news” that were meant to undercut purposely manipulative information are instead simply used as a cudgel against facts one doesn’t like, there’s been a correla...
It was inevitable that ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ would pale in comparison to the masterpiece it’s a sequel to. Under the direction of Stefano Sollima (best known for helping translate ‘Gomorrah’ t...
It’s inevitable that some 20 films into the Marvel Cinematic Universe things are starting to feel a bit rote. We know that between the big explosions of the ‘Avengers’ films, standalone works will move the pieces...
It doesn’t take much for a film like ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ to work given what seems to be the universal, visceral thrill one gets just seeing dinosaurs cavorting on screen (Terrence Malick’s mean...
Saying anything even a little bit negative about ‘Hearts Beat Loud’ feels wrong, like you’re the party pooper trying to put a stop to the festivities just as everyone has gathered to have a good time. The movie h...
In these days of political acrimony, where it’s too easy and tempting to craft virtual “safe spaces” in which we only consume information that’s in keeping with our established perspective, it’s more ...
A whiz-bang romp with a 1960s aesthetic and clever dialogue, Pixar’s 2004 blockbuster ‘The Incredibles’ was as fun as it was thrilling, a beautifully elegant family comedy wrapped in spandex superhero suits. Afte...
A couple of fundamental things work in favor of Baltasar Kormákur’s latest film, ‘Adrift’. First is our core connection to survival yarns, which are surely as old as human communication. Secondly is our connectio...
For a period in the mid-1960s, the name Jean-Luc Godard conveyed a god-like figure in French cinema. A former critic who turned the film world upside down with his wild editing style, crisp dialogue and jazzy plotting, Godard help...
Many cinephiles find a certain thrill about films done in the style of their heroes. Sometimes this works wonders – take Paul Thomas Anderson’s fascination with Robert Altman, or Scorsese’s with Powell and Pressburger....