Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Bleed for This

There's something about boxing movies that gets butts in seats regardless of so many being practically the same story. The formula almost always concerns some t...

[TIFF Review] Carrie Pilby

The synopsis for Carrie Pilby can sound atrocious on paper. Most films utilizing an eighteen-year old Harvard graduate do so as periphery color because the trop...

[Review] Mr. Church

If you didn't know what you were getting into upon sitting down for Bruce Beresford's Mr. Church, you will following this onscreen text: "Inspired by a True Fri...

[TIFF Review] ’76

It appears my first foray into Nollywood (Nigerian cinema) was well selected being the latest from director Izu Ojukwu, one of the nation's most ambitious artis...

[TIFF Review] Boys in the Trees

We've all lost friends whether from naturally parting ways or an avoidable blow-up proving petty in hindsight. Age advances and tastes evolve — we don't often t...

[TIFF Review] The Limehouse Golem

It took fifteen years of perseverance—acquiring the rights, losing them, and reacquiring them at the behest of screenwriter Jane Goldman stoking the fire—but pr...

[TIFF Review] A United Kingdom

Who knew the power of love ultimately won independence for the democratic republic of Botswana? I sure didn't. But this is the based-on-a-true-story film writer...

[TIFF Review] Moonlight

What's it like to be a young boy on the drug-filled streets of Miami without friends, without family, without hope? As cliques begin to feign superiority by gan...

[TIFF Review] Without Name

For someone afraid of loneliness, Eric (Alan McKenna) sure loves putting himself in positions that can't help isolating him from the world. A land surveyor who ...

[TIFF Review] Past Life

It's 1977 and you're the lead soprano in your first international concert. Rapturous applause and a flawless performance later you find yourself hobnobbing with...

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.