Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 31, 2019 · Leave a Comment
If you asked me in 2010 which studios’ films would be amongst my favorites over the next ten years, I probably would have answered two correctly: Fox Searchlight (11) and Sony Pictures Classics (7). Those are two independent shingles of big Hollywood names that have been pumping out quality pictures for decades. Next up would […]
Category essays, top 10 films, top 10 lists, z.slideshow · Tags 12 Years a Slave, 50/50, A Quiet Passion, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, American Animals, Aniara, Arrival, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Bullhead, Call Me By Your Name, Calvary, Carlos, Carol, Cloud Atlas, Coherence, Custody, Dunkirk, Enemy, Ex Machina, First Man, For Sama, Frances Ha, Fruitvale Station, Fury, Get Out, Hell or High Water, Hellion, Her, High-Rise, Holy Motors, Honey Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, I Am Love, I Am Not Your Negro, If Beale Street Could Talk, Inception, Inch'Allah, Inside Out, Intouchables, It Comes at Night, Jackie, James White, Lady Macbeth, Leave No Trace, Looper, Luce, Mad Max: Fury Road, Madeline's Madeline, Manchester by the Sea, Marriage Story, Melancholia, Midnight in Paris, Minding the Gap, Moonlight, Mudbound, Never Let Me Go, Oslo August 31st, ParaNorman, Parasite, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Rabbit Hole, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Selma, Shame, Short Term 12, Son of Saul, Sound of My Voice, Spotlight, Spring, Spring Breakers, Steve Jobs, The Act of Killing, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Farewell, The Fighter, The Hunt, The Master, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Social Network, The Standoff at Sparrow Creek, The Tree of Life, The Witch, The Wolf of Wall Street, Thelma, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Toni Erdmann, Transit, Under the Skin, Upstream Color, Waves, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Whiplash, Wild Tales, Wildlife, Wonderstruck, You Were Never Really Here
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 25, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Many have been saying 2012 was a great year for movies. I’m not sure I fully agree. There were a ton of solid 7/10s and 8/10s, yes, but how does that compare with previous years when the amount of 10/10s were also drastically reduced? It took until September for me to give a film four […]
Category essays, top 10 films · Tags 5 Broken Cameras, A Prophet, A Royal Affair, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Berberian Sound Studio, Beyond the Hills, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bradley Cooper, Brit Marling, Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, David O. Russell, De rouille et d'os, Detropia, Dupa dealuri, Emma Watson, En kongelig affære, Ezra Miller, Frances Ha, Frankenweenie, Girl Walk // All Day, God Bless America, Greenburg, Greta Gerwig, Holy Motors, Hotel Transylvania, Inch'Allah, Jacques Audiard, Jennifer Lawrence, Leos Carax, Liberal Arts, Logan Lerman, Looper, Margot at the Wedding, Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mickey Sumner, Natural Born Killers, Noah Baumbach, ParaNorman, Penélope Cruz, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rian Johnson, Rise of the Guardians, Rust and Bone, Samsara, Searching for Sugar Man, Silver Linings Playbook, Sound of My Voice, Stephen Chbosky, The Avengers, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Gatekeepers, The Imposter, The Invisible War, The Master, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Queen of Versailles, The Squid and the Whale, Tom Tykwer, Twice Born, Venuto al mondo, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Your Sister's Sister
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment
(short and sweet and to the point; culled from watching ~140 releases. constantly updated as i catch up to those i missed. click poster for review if applicable) #25: End of Watch directed by David Ayer #24: Amour directed by Michael Haneke #23: Moonrise Kingdom directed by Wes Anderson #22: How to Survive a Plague […]
Category top 10 films by year, top 10 lists · Tags Amour, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Andy Wachowski, Antiviral, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brandon Cronenberg, Chris Butler, Cloud Atlas, David Ayer, David France, David O. Russell, De rouille et d'os, End of Watch, God Bless America, Holy Motors, How to Survive a Plague, Inch'Allah, Jacques Audiard, Joe Carnahan, John Madden, Kathryn Bigelow, Lana Wachowski, Leos Carax, Looper, Michael Haneke, Moonrise Kingdom, ParaNorman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Prometheus, Rian Johnson, Rich Moore, Ridley Scott, Rust and Bone, Sam Mendes, Sarah Polley, Sergio Castellitto, Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, Sound of My Voice, Stephen Chbosky, Stories We Tell, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Grey, The Master, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tom Tykwer, Twice Born, Venuto al mondo, Wes Anderson, Wreck-It Ralph, Zal Batmanglij, Zero Dark Thirty
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment
“Both sides is no side” It’s truly amazing to watch how guilt, regret, and sorrow can change the very make-up of your character. It may only be for a brief while, but that moment can impact the lives of many in tragic and devastating ways. This is the portrait of the war-torn area in the […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, foreign, toronto international film festival · Tags Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Arabic, Evelyne Brochu, French, Hammoudeh Alkarmi, Inch'Allah, Sabrina Ouazani, Sivan Levy, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Yousef Sweid
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