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  • 2021/09/18 Jared Mobarak 0
    TIFF21 REVIEW: Les oiseaux ivres [Drunken Birds] [2021]
    I’m scared I’ll forget her. We start at the end—the end of...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2021/09/09 Jared Mobarak 0
    TIFF21 REVIEW: Petite maman [2021]
    We might not see each other again. It’s difficult grappling with the...
    Drama Fantasy Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 
  • 2021/08/17 Jared Mobarak 0
    FANTASIA21 REVIEW: Daewoebi: Gwonryeok-ui Tansaeng [The Devil’s Deal] [2021]
    Can’t we live ordinary lives? There’s no way anybody beats Jeon Hae-woong...
    Drama Fantasia International Film Festival Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Suspense/Thriller z.slideshow 
  • 2021/07/24 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Nine Days [2021]
    Pull the chair. Will (Winston Duke) is one of an unknown number...
    Drama Fantasy Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2021/07/03 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) [2021]
    It was the ultimate Black barbecue. 1970. That was the year Michael...
    Documentary Film Reviews Musical/Concert z.slideshow 
Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019

Top 100 Films...

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

Posterized Propaganda January...

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Film Reviews

  • 2021/09/20 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Copshop [2021]

    I’m on it. When rookie officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) gets a disturbance call, the last thing she expects upon arrival is an all-out brawl between men and women in tuxedos and dresses outside of a wedding reception. That’s Vegas for you. Since they’re only hurting themselves, her...
    Action/Adventure Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller 
  • 2021/09/19 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF21 REVIEW: Yi miao zhong [One Second] [2020]

    This is my only chance. The assumption is that our unnamed protagonist (Yi Zhang) is about...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2021/09/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF21 REVIEW: Zalava [2021]

    Below the waist. The inhabitants of Zalava were never meant to stay in one place. Their...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Horror Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2021/09/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF21 REVIEW: El otro Tom [The Other Tom] [2021]

    You never keep your promises. Tom (Israel Rodriguez) is an uncontrollable youth in school and at...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival 
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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...
    Film Features Interviews z.slideshow 
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Top Posts & Pages

  • REVIEW: Copshop [2021]
  • REVIEW: アンチポルノ [Anchiporuno] [Antiporno] [2017]
  • CANNES21 REVIEW: El Empleado y El Patron [The Employer and the Employee] [2021]
  • BNFF11 REVIEW: Webdultery [2011]
  • REVIEW: Српски филм [Srpski film] [A Serbian Film] [2010]

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...
    Top 10 Films by Year Top 10 Lists z.slideshow 
  • 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...
    Top 10 Albums by Year Top 10 Lists z.slideshow 
  • 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

  • 2021/09/19 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF21 REVIEW: Yi miao zhong [One Second] [2020]

    This is my only chance. The assumption is that our unnamed protagonist (Yi Zhang) is about to steal the reels of film that have just been loaded onto a motorcycle headed for the next town’s screening. He hides in the shadows as the two men bringing them out...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2021/09/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF21 REVIEW: Zalava [2021]

    Below the waist. The inhabitants of Zalava were never meant to stay in one place. Their...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Horror Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2021/09/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF21 REVIEW: El otro Tom [The Other Tom] [2021]

    You never keep your promises. Tom (Israel Rodriguez) is an uncontrollable youth in school and at...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival 
  • 2021/09/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    TIFF21 REVIEW: Les oiseaux ivres [Drunken Birds] [2021]

    I’m scared I’ll forget her. We start at the end—the end of a cartel. Men climb...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign Toronto International Film Festival z.slideshow 

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    DESIGN: 2020 In Music

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    DESIGN: 2019 In Music

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