Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Girls Lost

Writer/director Alexandra-Therese Keining's adaptation of Jessica Schiefuer's 2011 August Prize-winning (Sweden) young adult novel Pojkarna (translated as The B...

[TIFF Review] Len and Company

Hearing how deeply a film touched its cast lends a certain air that might not normally be there. Len and Company has it as Juno Temple and star Rhys Ifans both ...

[TIFF Review] Men & Chicken

While I'm not familiar with Anders Thomas Jensen's solo work, I am with the films he has collaborated on opposite Susanne Bier. So to see images of his latest M...

[TIFF Review] Ville-Marie

It may only be his second feature-length fictional narrative, but writer/director Guy Édoin's Ville-Marie is something special. The title is named after the Mon...

[TIFF Review] A Patch of Fog

After Michael Lennox's success with the Oscar-nominated short Boogaloo and Graham, it was only a matter of time before he'd delve back into the feature game wit...

[TIFF Review] Black

The buzz on Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's film Black is that it's a contemporary take on a Shakespearean classic. Saying as much is an apt description and Ro...

[TIFF Review] Mekko

Seeking to bridge the divide between contemporary filmmaking and Native American spiritualism, writer/director Sterlin Harjo's Mekko provides a tale of redempti...

[TIFF Review] Victoria

If director/co-writer Sebastian Schipper wanted, he could have easily turned Victoria into a first-person adventure through the streets of Berlin. It practicall...

[TIFF Review] Spear

Interpretative dance is not something to be lightly taken. You either have the propensity to let it wash over you in its loose gyrations of emotional expression...

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.