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  • 2021/12/02 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: The Mitchells vs the Machines [2021]
    Be bold and never play it safe. So many familial conflicts can...
    Action/Adventure Animation Comedy Family Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2021/11/26 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: ドライブ・マイ・カー [Doraibu mai kâ] [Drive My Car] [2021]
    Those who survive keep thinking about the dead. The film starts with...
    Drama Film Reviews Foreign z.slideshow 
  • 2021/11/09 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: The Power of the Dog [2021]
    I don’t know what you’re talking about. Bronco Henry made Phil Burbank...
    Drama Film Reviews Romance Western z.slideshow 
  • 2021/11/04 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Procession [2021]
    We’re going to make our point. The film begins with a press...
    Documentary Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2021/10/21 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Mass [2021]
    I don’t think I can say it. First things first: you should...
    Drama Film Reviews z.slideshow 
Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019

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Film Reviews

  • 2021/12/02 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: The Mitchells vs the Machines [2021]

    Be bold and never play it safe. So many familial conflicts can be solved by a simple conversation laying out wants and desires since passive aggressive ultimatums will always prove insufficient as a means for compromise. Should Rick Mitchell (Danny McBride) need Katie (Abbi Jacobson) to overtly tell...
    Action/Adventure Animation Comedy Family Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2021/12/01 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Encanto [2021]

    Make your family proud. Abuela Alma (María Cecilia Botero) was alone with her triplet babies when...
    Action/Adventure Animation Comedy Family Film Reviews 
  • 2021/12/01 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Far from the Tree [2021]

    Parent raccoon is off to find some food to eat for themself and their child. They...
    Animation Drama Family Film Reviews 
  • 2021/11/27 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: The Eyes of Tammy Faye [2021]

    God loves you. He really, really does. Director Michael Showalter‘s The Eyes of Tammy Faye is...
    Biography Drama Film Reviews 
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Interviews

  • 2020/10/20 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Catherine Eaton, writer/director/star of The Sounding

    Writer/director/star Catherine Eaton‘s feature directorial debut The Sounding is finally available nationwide on VOD and Digital HD after a planned theatrical run was unfortunately scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been a long time coming considering we reviewed it in 2017 out of the Buffalo International Film...
    Film Features Interviews 
  • 2020/09/09 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Reinaldo Marcus Green, director of Good Joe Bell

    Between his feature film debut Monsters and Men in 2018 and the currently shooting Richard Williams...
    Film Features Film Festival Interviews Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2020/07/29 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Cosmo Jarvis, star of Calm with Horses

    One of my favorite films from last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, The Shadow of Violence...
    Film Features Interviews 
  • 2020/02/27 Jared Mobarak 0

    INTERVIEW: Benh Zeitlin, co-writer/director of Wendy

    Beasts of the Southern Wild was the indie darling of 2012 having racked up prestigious festival...
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Top 10 Lists

  • 2021/01/25 Jared Mobarak 0

    Online Film Critics Society Ballot 2020

    Below is my January 20th ballot for the 24th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards honoring movies released domestically in the United States during the 2020 calendar year. Each category is ordered according to my preferential rankings. Group winners were announced on January 25th, 2021 and are labeled...
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  • 2020/12/31 Jared Mobarak 0

    Posterized Propaganda January 2021: The Top 10 Movie Posters of 2020

    “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact...
    Film Features Posterized Propaganda Top 10 Lists Top 10 Posters by Year 
  • 2020/03/25 Jared Mobarak 0

    Top 100 Albums of 2019

    Honorable Mention Tinlicker – This is Not Our Universe; Cold War Kids – New Age Norms...
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  • 2019/12/31 Jared Mobarak 0

    Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019

    If you asked me in 2010 which studios’ films would be amongst my favorites over the...
    Top 10 Films by Year Top 10 Lists 

Film Festivals

  • 2021/11/12 Jared Mobarak 0

    DOCNYC21 REVIEW: Adrienne [2021]

    I wasn’t supposed to find her dead. I hadn’t seen any of Adrienne Shelly‘s work at the time of her death, but you couldn’t follow the film world in 2006 without hearing about what happened. The news sites latched onto the assumption of suicide early on only to...
    Biography DOC NYC Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 
  • 2021/11/11 Jared Mobarak 0

    DOCNYC21 REVIEW: Messwood [2021]

    Kids win. Coaches lose. You can’t avoid questions about race when you’re talking about a situation...
    DOC NYC Documentary Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 
  • 2021/10/09 Jared Mobarak 0

    BIFF21 REVIEW: Catch the Fair One [2021]

    You wish it was me on that wall. Kaylee (Kali Reis) hasn’t fought much since her...
    Buffalo International Film Festival Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller 
  • 2021/10/07 Jared Mobarak 0

    BIFF21 REVIEW: Landlocked [2021]

    I don’t want to mess this up. Nick’s (Dustin Gooch) mother just passed away. One more...
    Buffalo International Film Festival Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews 

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    DESIGN: 2020 In Music

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    DESIGN: The Film Stage

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