Jared Mobarak

[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...

[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...

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.