Jared Mobarak

[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...

[TIFF Review] Clair Obscur

Life for a woman like Elmas (Ecem Uzun) in Turkey is a living nightmare. An eighteen-year old all but sold to a willing husband (Serkan Keskin's Koca) much olde...

[TIFF Review] Catfight

With a title like Catfight and the only available image showing a bloodied and battered chokehold between Anne Heche and Sandra Oh, our expectations are forced ...

[TIFF Review] American Pastoral

If my limited experience with Philip Roth adaptations is any indication, his novels deal in emotion. There are existential crises concerning identity involved, ...

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.