Christopher Schobert

[TIFF Review] Sarah Prefers to Run

You have never seen a main character quite like the eponymous heroine of Sarah Prefers to Run, a smart, unique, semi-satisfying Toronto International Film Festi...

[TIFF Review] Wasted Youth

Wasted Youth is a curious concoction, a disaffected-teens drama with tragic consequences that feels a bit too familiar, yet mostly succeeds thanks to its settin...

[Review] Paul Williams: Still Alive

The title Paul Williams: Still Alive is either the meanest or the most life-affirming in recent documentary history, and after watching Stephen Kessler’s film a...

[TIFF Review] Byzantium

There’s a moment in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium when the strange family unit — mother Clara, daughter Eleanor, and new “boyfriend” Noel — watch what seems to be an ...

[TIFF Review] Gangs of Wasseypur

How fitting, in a year that has seen a restored version of Sergio Leone’s embattled, multigenerational gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, that a new, Le...

Christopher Schobert

Christopher Schobert is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic who has written for numerous outlets worldwide and covered film festivals in Toronto, New York, and London. Currently, he writes reviews and features for The Film Stage, writes a monthly cinema column for Buffalo Spree magazine, and discusses film as a regular guest on the Shredd and Ragan radio show on Buffalo’s 97 Rock.