Jared Mobarak

[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...

[TIFF Review] Ninth Floor

The 1969 Sir George Williams Affair seems like something we should all know about. It occurred only a year after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and prov...

Posterized September 2015: ‘Everest,’ ‘Sicario,’ ‘The Walk,’ and More

“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably....

[Review] Catch Me Daddy

Even though he's absent until the film's final sequence because the estranged daughter he's hired bounty hunters to find is foremost in our attention, director ...

[Fantasia Review] Bridgend

When 79 people between 2007 and 2012 commit suicide—many teens and most without a note—within a single town, there's definitely a story to tell. Welcome to Brid...

[Fantasia Review] Crumbs

Spanish writer/director Miguel Llansó's independent film company Lanzadera Films explains its mission as a firm that focuses on "undiscovered countries, experim...

[Fantasia Review] Possessed

I didn't know I wanted a horror parody in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch until about halfway through Samuel Ortí Martí's pitch black skewering of the genre ...

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.