Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Truth

There's a real issue with the media and how they have monetized news content over the past couple decades. Robert Redford has a great monologue as Dan Rather in...

[TIFF Review] Into the Forest

The farther we advance towards a world of complete convenience, the further we distance ourselves from self-sufficiency. Every new generation loses more skills ...

[TIFF Review] Baskin

It starts off with a late night dinner scene between a quintet of cops telling crazy stories and losing their temper with the help straight out of a Tarantino m...

[TIFF Review] High-Rise

As soon as the voice of Tom Hiddleston's Dr. Robert Laing was heard speaking narration above his weathered and crazed visage manically moving from cluttered, di...

[TIFF Review] The Ones Below

With comparisons to Hitchcock and Polanski, David Farr's directorial debut The Ones Below starts behind the eight ball straight away. There are definite moments...

[TIFF Review] Hellions

There's a lot I like about Bruce McDonald's latest horror Hellions. Just as much also has me scratching my head, though. While this sometimes enhances the exper...

[TIFF Review] Phantom Boy

French directors Alain Gagnol (who also wrote) and Jean-Loup Felicioli have another winner on their hands with Phantom Boy. The much-anticipated follow-up to th...

[TIFF Review] I Saw the Light

The opening to Marc Abraham's I Saw the Light holds a lot of intrigue. Based on Colin Escott's biography about hillbilly legend Hank Williams, the start goes fr...

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.