Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Abuse of Weakness

The draw of Catherine Breillat's newest, autobiographical film, Abuse of Weakness (known as Abus de faiblesse in its native tongue), is ultimately to watch how ...

[TIFF Review] Asphalt Watches

I'm not one to condone illicit drug use, but you might want to take something if it's available before sitting down to watch Asphalt Watches, since its animated...

[TIFF Review] Dallas Buyers Club

How do you stretch having thirty days left to live into seven years? You put in the work. Ron Woodroff (Matthew McConaughey) didn’t journey towards opening up t...

[TIFF Review] Gravity

Back in the '90s, at the advent of IMAX technology, certain amusement parks would have a screen with some "experience" putting you "into the action." Enter the ...

[TIFF Review] Parkland

We all know the story of President John F. Kennedy's assassination: it's an event that has been ingrained into our culture and, having spawned a myriad of consp...

[TIFF Review] Canopy

It's September 9th, 1942 and the Japanese have already invaded Singapore three years before the first atomic bomb will shake them with devastating force and ult...

[TIFF Review] October November

The image of a drowning fish—gasping and jumping atop a rock too far from salvation—is what has stuck with me most after watching writer/director Götz Spielmann...

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.