Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] October Gale

After enjoying Ruba Nadda's Inescapable and hearing praise for Cairo Time I was intrigued by her latest effort, October Gale. For whatever reason Nadda doesn't ...

[TIFF Review] Coming Home

I kept trying to think about what films Zhang Yimou's Coming Home reminded me of while watching. Obvious ones came to mind like Away From Her and Amour where Go...

[TIFF Review] Samba

Every movie should have a score by Ludovico Einaudi and it's comforting to see Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano agree. After using his haunting music on the sk...

[TIFF Review] Men, Women & Children

We are the pale blue dot of Earth? No. We're the intermittently blinking light on the end of an out-of-touch parent's device for transparently spying on the ele...

[TIFF Review] Trick or Treaty?

A constant fixture with the National Film Board of Canada, director Alanis Obomsawin's latest documentary spans a variety of themes surrounding the weighted sub...

[TIFF Review] Corbo

There's ease to idolizing the IRA for rising against their British oppressors because the number of Irish descendants retaining a piece of nationalism at heart ...

[Review] Cam2Cam

This year's most tonally out-of-place ending goes to Cam2Cam. A horror/thriller pitting the murderer of a young American in Bangkok against the victim's sister ...

[Review] Metro Manila

The impetus for Sean Ellis' Metro Manila could have simply been an intriguing anecdote to tell people upon returning to England from a trip visiting a friend in...

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.