Jared Mobarak

[BIFF Review] Gold Star

I know what Victoria Negri's debut feature, Gold Star, is about, even if the thing never quite finds the footing to fulfill its promise. It's about a young woma...

[Review] Milton’s Secret

After finding international success with his spiritual teachings through best-selling books The Power of Now and A New Earth, author and counselor Eckhart Tolle...

[TIFF Review] The Animal’s Wife

Colombia's tourism department won't be sanctioning Víctor Gaviria's The Animal's Wife anytime soon and I definitely will never be visiting to see how accurate a...

[TIFF Review] Indivisible

It starts off so magically with conjoined twins Dasy (Angela Fontana) and Viola (Marianna Fontana) bringing hope and the word of God to the unfortunate souls la...

[TIFF Review] Forever Pure

Just when you think it can't get worse—that the vocal, racist minority spewing bile will be extinguished in a show of tide-turning empathy—everything is literal...

[TIFF Review] In Between

It's Tel Aviv in 2016 and the parties are wild. Drinking, dancing, snorting, kissing — it's time for twenty-year olds to have fun and be alive. But whereas in A...

[TIFF Review] Goldstone

Another missing girl has Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) on the move while the world continues to turn a blind eye. This time it isn't an aboriginal, though...

[TIFF Review] Kati Kati

Most of cinema's best films are those that do rather than explain. These works are created by artists wielding airtight concepts insofar as attaining their goal...

[TIFF Review] Colossal

Whether the existence of time travel or an alien invasion, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo has proven king at dealing with large-scale concepts affecting small-...

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.