Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Indivisible

It starts off so magically with conjoined twins Dasy (Angela Fontana) and Viola (Marianna Fontana) bringing hope and the word of God to the unfortunate souls la...

[TIFF Review] Forever Pure

Just when you think it can't get worse—that the vocal, racist minority spewing bile will be extinguished in a show of tide-turning empathy—everything is literal...

[TIFF Review] In Between

It's Tel Aviv in 2016 and the parties are wild. Drinking, dancing, snorting, kissing — it's time for twenty-year olds to have fun and be alive. But whereas in A...

[TIFF Review] Goldstone

Another missing girl has Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) on the move while the world continues to turn a blind eye. This time it isn't an aboriginal, though...

[TIFF Review] Kati Kati

Most of cinema's best films are those that do rather than explain. These works are created by artists wielding airtight concepts insofar as attaining their goal...

[TIFF Review] Colossal

Whether the existence of time travel or an alien invasion, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo has proven king at dealing with large-scale concepts affecting small-...

[TIFF Review] Bleed for This

There's something about boxing movies that gets butts in seats regardless of so many being practically the same story. The formula almost always concerns some t...

[TIFF Review] Carrie Pilby

The synopsis for Carrie Pilby can sound atrocious on paper. Most films utilizing an eighteen-year old Harvard graduate do so as periphery color because the trop...

[Review] Mr. Church

If you didn't know what you were getting into upon sitting down for Bruce Beresford's Mr. Church, you will following this onscreen text: "Inspired by a True Fri...

[TIFF Review] ’76

It appears my first foray into Nollywood (Nigerian cinema) was well selected being the latest from director Izu Ojukwu, one of the nation's most ambitious artis...

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.