Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Boys in the Trees

We've all lost friends whether from naturally parting ways or an avoidable blow-up proving petty in hindsight. Age advances and tastes evolve — we don't often t...

[TIFF Review] The Limehouse Golem

It took fifteen years of perseverance—acquiring the rights, losing them, and reacquiring them at the behest of screenwriter Jane Goldman stoking the fire—but pr...

[TIFF Review] A United Kingdom

Who knew the power of love ultimately won independence for the democratic republic of Botswana? I sure didn't. But this is the based-on-a-true-story film writer...

[TIFF Review] Moonlight

What's it like to be a young boy on the drug-filled streets of Miami without friends, without family, without hope? As cliques begin to feign superiority by gan...

[TIFF Review] Without Name

For someone afraid of loneliness, Eric (Alan McKenna) sure loves putting himself in positions that can't help isolating him from the world. A land surveyor who ...

[TIFF Review] Past Life

It's 1977 and you're the lead soprano in your first international concert. Rapturous applause and a flawless performance later you find yourself hobnobbing with...

[TIFF Review] Interchange

Something's happening in Kuala Lampur—something that cannot be explained. Deaths in the vein of Bryan Fuller's gorgeously ornate displays of murder from "Hannib...

[TIFF Review] City of Tiny Lights

Small-time private detective Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed) has all the swagger of a hard-boiled snoop: leather jacket on his shoulders and cigarette in his mouth, le...

[TIFF Review] Tramps

The romantic comedy formula is one that can't help but become redundant in premise. How many different scenarios are there for two people to converge? Even so, ...

[TIFF Review] Snowden

Remakes repackaging foreign films for American audiences are justifiable if done correctly. I’d hope our movie-going public would willingly read subtitles and e...

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.