Jared Mobarak

[Review] A Single Shot

It’s a shame most people need an incident that risks taking their life to finally acknowledge they have one left to live. For John Moon (Sam Rockwell), this mom...

[TIFF Review] Ladder to Damascus

A non-violent, secular movement began in Syria in early 2011 led by young protestors calling for democratic freedoms and the fall of president Bashar al-Assad’s...

[TIFF Review] Bad Words

Perhaps Jason Bateman is tired of playing the likeable voice of reason amongst more idiotic counterparts, an character that his iconic turn as Michael Bluth on ...

[TIFF Review] Joe

While it often feels like a brother to Jeff Nichols' brilliant Mud, David Gordon Green's newest drama Joe even has the same young actor supporting his titular l...

[TIFF Review] Labor Day

If anyone asked if Jason Reitman was truly a great director or, rather, someone with excellent luck in choosing projects -- I remember thinking his Best Directo...

[TIFF Review] Dom Hemingway

After finding a glut of recent work in television, it's good to see writer-director Richard Shepard back in theaters with Dom Hemingway. As a big fan of both Th...

[TIFF Review] R100

What do you get when you cross one of Japan's most influential comedians, a premise similar to The Game -- but with a zany wild streak of subversive humor -- an...

[TIFF Review] A Field in England

"A coward becomes a man" is, I suppose, the crux of Ben Wheatley’s newest thriller, A Field in England. We find Whitehead (Reece Shearsmith) hiding in the bushe...

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.