Jared Mobarak

[Review] Blood Brother

While finding one's calling is easy for some and effortless for others, the rest may need to travel around the world before figuring out what truly gives them m...

[Review] Paradise

My first trip to the Toronto International Film Festival had me arriving at the box office with vouchers and no clue about what to see. Ready for anything, my f...

[Review] Renoir

A name as prolific as Renoir can't help conjure a litany of tales worthy of the big screen. None, however, are more intriguing than the discovery of the surname...

[TIFF Review] Palestine Stereo

No matter how much Stereo (Mahmud Abu-Jazi) loves his country, living in the warzone that is occupied Palestine has to prove hollow at some point. A wedding sin...

[TIFF Review] Brazilian Western

Composed by Renato Russo in 1979 and finally released in 1987 on his band Legião Urbana’s album Que País É Este, “Faroeste Caboclo” became a folk song hit in Br...

[TIFF Review] iNumber Number

The South African director behind cinematic adaptations of John van de Ruit’s comedic, teen-lit Spud series hits the Toronto International Film Festival with hi...

[Review] A Single Shot

It’s a shame most people need an incident that risks taking their life to finally acknowledge they have one left to live. For John Moon (Sam Rockwell), this mom...

[TIFF Review] Ladder to Damascus

A non-violent, secular movement began in Syria in early 2011 led by young protestors calling for democratic freedoms and the fall of president Bashar al-Assad’s...

[TIFF Review] Bad Words

Perhaps Jason Bateman is tired of playing the likeable voice of reason amongst more idiotic counterparts, an character that his iconic turn as Michael Bluth on ...

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.