Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Little Wing

The director of Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?, the hilarious 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Short Film, is back with her sophomore feature narrative Little...

[TIFF Review] Zacma: Blindness

The roles have been reversed for Julia Brystygier (Maria Mamona), the once powerful colonel in the USSR's Ministry. She interrogated countless enemies of the st...

[TIFF Review] Pyromaniac

Going in with no expectations besides the recent news that the film had been shortlisted for Norway’s 2017 Oscar selection, director Erik Skjoldbjærg's Pyromani...

[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...

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.