Nocebo Review: Eva Green Searches for Healing in Rousing Psychological Thriller
Christine's (Eva Green) perfect life comes crashing down with a phone call on what should be the best day of her professional career. A children's clothing fas...
Jared Mobarak
Wendell & Wild Review: Henry Selick and Key & Peele Team for Stylish Yet Frustrating Animation
Sometimes tragedy begets opportunity. Case in point: Henry Selick's The Shadow King being unceremoniously scrapped by Pixar. It was supposed to be his follow-u...
Brother’s Keeper Review: Turkish Thriller Mines the Human Psyche
In a display of authoritarian punishment, the principal (Mahir Ipek) of the Turkish boarding school where Ferit Karahan's Brother's Keeper is set seeks to remi...
BIFF Review: Lovely Jackson Provides a Visceral Reckoning with Wrongful Imprisonment
More than just a documentary detailing the circumstances surrounding Rickey Jackson's 1975 conviction for a murder he did not commit, Matt Waldeck's Lovely Jac...
The Fire That Took Her Review: Judy Malinowski Murder Case is Revisited in Heroic, Heartbreaking Doc
There are many reasons director Patricia E. Gillespie wanted to tell Judy Malinowski's story. The most crucial was a desire to ensure she wasn't forgotten. Tha...
Old Man Review: Stephen Lang Strikes Fear in Lucky McKee’s Horror Thriller
Some wounds don't heal. Not with time. Not with a mythical lake of water with the power to mend all ailments. And while we can try to forget, the mind will alw...
Posterized October 2022: Decision to Leave, TÁR, Holy Spider & More
As we work into the second week of the New York Film Festival, the theatrical shift towards awards-season fare officially begins at your local multiple...
Sirens Review: Finding Poetry in Love and Music
While Rita Baghdadi's documentary Sirens centers upon the first all-female thrash metal band from the Middle East, it's not really about the band. We follow th...
BIFF Review: Relative Finds a Reunited Family Searching for Catharsis
Life is about handling contradictions. And they all demand that we choose between compromising, conceding, or refusing to back down—whether it's opposite a fam...
Piggy Review: Payback is Complicated
There's a reason Carlota Pereda films Sara (Laura Galán) urinating through her clothes as an old friend (Irene Ferreiro's Claudia), who's drifted away towards ...
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.