Jared Mobarak

[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 ...

[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...

[Review] If I Stay

I am not a proponent of stories that hinge the possibility of undying live between teenagers on an unspeakable tragedy. This was my biggest issue with the overw...

[Review] The Hundred-Foot Journey

With Chocolat and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen under his belt, The Hundred-Foot Journey isn't anything approaching new territory for director Lasse Hallström. Bu...

[Review] Into the Storm

We need to talk about Into the Storm's unsung hero: Lucas. Played by Lee Whittaker, most won't think twice about his character standing on the sidelines with ca...

[Fantasia Review] Preservation

When Christopher Denham's Preservation shows recently discharged vet Sean Neary (Pablo Schreiber) telling sister-in-law Wit (Wrenn Schmidt) about how playing wa...

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.