Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Adult Beginners

No one is ever going to say Ross Katz's Adult Beginners is original. The opening implosion for Jake's (Nick Kroll) multi-million dollar investment project was d...

[Review] Take Me to the River

While it could have easily become a simple behind the scenes feature for an album of three generations of Memphis soul musicians coming together to recut some h...

[TIFF Review] Spring

The first words in Colin Geddes’ TIFF description for Vanguard selection Spring are, “Before Sunrise gets a supernatural twist.” Naturally, I pushed everything ...

[TIFF Review] Kill Me Three Times

Director Kriv Stenders left the audience seated for his latest film Kill Me Three Times with the words, "I hope you have as much fun watching as we had making i...

[TIFF Review] Bang Bang Baby

Harkening back to the era of its setting, Bang Bang Baby embraces the over-the-top aesthetic of 1963 entertainment with small town girl Stepphy (Jane Levy) drea...

[TIFF Review] The Cobbler

Adults need fairy tales too and Thomas McCarthy--with cowriter Paul Sado--deliver one in The Cobbler. They don't try to pretend it's something more, either, as ...

[TIFF Review] The Duke of Burgundy

Sometimes one just needs to cleanse their palette or expand their mind by checking out a film even the director says is all about the experience. So when Peter ...

[TIFF Review] The Wanted 18

Who knew cows could be a symbol of freedom, resistance, self-sufficiency, and identity? On the surface it's absurd and yet they became Palestinian town Beit Sah...

[TIFF Review] Nightcrawler

There are some huge ebbs and flows in Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler. At times I loved it, others I felt bad for laughing, and some instances made me wonder what exa...

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.