TIFF Review: Stellar Captures a Budding Romance with Celestial Power
It's all a matter of perspective. If you've never known a privileged existence, what difference to your world would an apocalypse truly introduce? There's alwa...
Jared Mobarak
TIFF Review: Riceboy Sleeps is a Non-Judgemental Look at Being Caught Between Two Worlds
So-Young (Choi Seung-yoon) didn't want to leave South Korea. She had no choice. The father of her newborn son committed suicide and, as an orphan who was never...
TIFF Review: Sweet As Offers a Contemporary Update to The Breakfast Club
It didn't take long after watching Jub Clerc's Sweet As to see the comparison point my mind went to first (The Breakfast Club) was hardly an original thought. ...
TIFF Review: Muru is a Justifiably Angry Depiction of New Zealand’s Inherent Racism
New Zealand's Tūhoe people have faced more than a century of aggression for daring to keep their culture alive. As relayed at the start of Tearepa Kahi's thril...
TIFF Review: Bones of Crows Tells an Epic Story of Survival During a Shameful Period of Canadian History
It starts in the 1800s. That's when the first residential schools were opened across Canada as a means of "beating the Indian" out of Indigenous children. The ...
TIFF Review: A Gaza Weekend is a Middle Eastern Comedy Finding Truth in Satirization
Director Basil Khalil and co-writer Daniel Ka-Chun Chan waste no time setting the tone for their Middle Eastern comedy A Gaza Weekend. Conceived over a decade ...
TIFF Review: Susie Searches is a Quirky Look at the Destructive Nature of Popularity
Susie Wallis (Kiersey Clemons) has never met a mystery she couldn't solve. At least not when it comes to those that populate the crime books her mother (Jammie...
TIFF Review: Fixation Takes a Disorienting Roller Coaster Ride Through the Subconscious
What did Dora (Maddie Hasson) do all those years ago? That's the question she's asking herself as she sits straightjacketed in a hospital she doesn't remember ...
TIFF Review: Rosie is an Adorably Infectious Coming of Age Story Set in a Montreal Melting Pot
The last thing Frédérique (Melanie Bray) needs is another mouth to feed. She's already sneaking out the fire escape to avoid her landlord and can barely hold d...
TIFF Review: My Sailor, My Love is a Delicate Look into the Familial Dynamics of Flawed People
Howard (James Cosmo) lives what appears to be a hermitic life of unwavering obstinance. He doesn't even open the door when his daughter Grace (Catherine Walker...
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.