Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Souvenir

It starts with bubbles. So many bubbles rising slowly in liquid as the opening credits in script font flash onscreen. And when the camera finally pans out to se...

[TIFF Review] The Magnificent Seven

Rather than the 1960 version or the film it was based on, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven brought deja vu of the unexpecte...

[TIFF Review] We Are Never Alone

Fans of Quentin Dupieux should rejoice because I haven't seen a film this absurdly hilarious since Wrong. Petr Václav's We Are Never Alone is definitely bleaker...

[Review] Demon

Nothing's allowed to derail the guests of a Polish wedding from having fun, not even the groom's epileptic seizure. You just pick him up and cart him out. Send ...

[Review] The 9th Life of Louis Drax

Ten years after Anthony Minghella optioned Liz Jensen's The 9th Life of Louis Drax to develop cinematically, it was his son Max who saw it begin production. The...

[Review] Max Rose

A film centering on octogenarians isn't an easy sell. Not even when you get a legend like Jerry Lewis to come out of retirement to deliver his first starring ro...

[Review] I Am Not a Serial Killer

Often lumped into the Young Adult category to the chagrin of author Dan Wells, I'm not sure I know many parents who would like to have their fourteen-year old c...

[Review] Level Up

You watch enough hero-backed-into-a-corner action films like Crank, Taken, or The Equalizer and you start to find your mind drifting away from the sheer monoton...

[Review] Imperium

People forget that before 9/11 our idea of a terrorist was a lone wolf type: domestic white Neo Nazis with agendas that warped their intellect into working towa...

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.