TIFF Review: The Quiet Ones Orchestrates a Thrilling Heist
When Kasper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) learns his brother-in-law wants him to speak with a Moroccan friend, he knows what that conversation will entail. It probabl...
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TIFF Review: Alicia Vikander Steals the Show in the Sci-Fi Drama The Assessment
The “old world” is a wasteland. People still live there, but not for very long. Those in the “new world” live hundreds of years thanks to a drug that slows agi...
TIFF Review: Relay Sets Riz Ahmed in a Kinetic Thriller
You always hear about whistleblowers––those who smuggle documentation for the benefit of the public out of corporations trying to make or save a buck at the ex...
TIFF Review: Heretic is a Chamber Piece of Subversions Exploring the Concept of God
Missionary work has always fascinated me. Not when it’s performed abroad as a means of indoctrinating people who might otherwise be unaware. I mean here, in Am...
TIFF Review: Under the Volcano Gives Form to the Purgatory of Survival in Times of Horror
They always knew a full-scale invasion of Ukraine could happen, but they held onto hope it wouldn't. How else could they enjoy a vacation abroad in the Canary ...
TIFF Review: The Fire Inside Is an Inspiring Sports Movie Coming at the Right Moment
It’s difficult to keep sending back 12-year-old Claressa Shields (Jazmin Headley) when she’s got more fight in her than any of the boys he’s training, but that...
TIFF Review: We Live in Time is a Moving Look at the Ebb and Flow of a Relationship
It’s all about perspective. Six great months living the rest of your life to the fullest or twelve miserable ones trying to survive? Sacrificing present happin...
TIFF Review: The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos Captures a David vs. Goliath Fight
The cinematic arm of the Slum Dwellers International and affiliates’ campaign to expose injustice wrought upon waterfront communities in Nigeria’s largest city...
TIFF Review: In Nacho Vigalondo’s Daniela Forever, a Romantic Dreamscape Turns Nightmarish
When Nicolás (Henry Golding) wakes from his dream, Daniela (Beatrice Grannò) is gone. It wasn’t some crazy adventure or anything, either. Just the two of them ...
Posterized September 2024: Eureka, Red Rooms, Matt and Mara & More
Just because everyone is talking about Venice, Telluride, TIFF, and NYFF right now doesn't mean theaters have suddenly stopped opening new movies near ...
Jared Mobarak
Jared Mobarak is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic for The Film Stage, Art Director for Buffalo, NY film series Cultivate Cinema Circle, and member of OFCS and GWNYFCA. You can follow his cinematic viewing habits at Letterboxd.