[TIFF Review] October Gale
After enjoying Ruba Nadda's Inescapable and hearing praise for Cairo Time I was intrigued by her latest effort, October Gale. For whatever reason Nadda doesn't ...
Jared Mobarak
[TIFF Review] Coming Home
I kept trying to think about what films Zhang Yimou's Coming Home reminded me of while watching. Obvious ones came to mind like Away From Her and Amour where Go...
[TIFF Review] Samba
Every movie should have a score by Ludovico Einaudi and it's comforting to see Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano agree. After using his haunting music on the sk...
[TIFF Review] Men, Women & Children
We are the pale blue dot of Earth? No. We're the intermittently blinking light on the end of an out-of-touch parent's device for transparently spying on the ele...
TIFF Short Cuts International Capsules: ‘Chop My Money’, ‘Growing Pains’, ‘Ice Cream’ & More
Thirty-six short films were selected as part of the Toronto International Film Festivals 2014 brand new Short Cuts International. Expanding their slate ...
[TIFF Review] Trick or Treaty?
A constant fixture with the National Film Board of Canada, director Alanis Obomsawin's latest documentary spans a variety of themes surrounding the weighted sub...
[TIFF Review] Corbo
There's ease to idolizing the IRA for rising against their British oppressors because the number of Irish descendants retaining a piece of nationalism at heart ...
Posterized September 2014: ‘The Zero Theorem,’ ‘The Boxtrolls’, ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ 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 focuse...
[Review] Cam2Cam
This year's most tonally out-of-place ending goes to Cam2Cam. A horror/thriller pitting the murderer of a young American in Bangkok against the victim's sister ...
[Review] Metro Manila
The impetus for Sean Ellis' Metro Manila could have simply been an intriguing anecdote to tell people upon returning to England from a trip visiting a friend in...
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.