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  • 2021/12/14 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: 竜とそばかすの姫 [Ryû to sobakasu no hime] [Belle] [2021]
    Come now, change the world. If Suzu (Kaho Nakamura) had her way,...
    Action/Adventure Animation Drama Film Reviews Foreign z.slideshow 
  • 2021/12/08 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: The Lost Daughter [2021]
    Children are a crushing responsibility. Leda (Olivia Colman) has obviously been looking...
    Drama Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 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 
Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019

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Posterized Propaganda January 2022: The Top 10 Movie Posters of 2021

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Film Reviews

  • 2022/01/22 Jared Mobarak 0

    SUNDANCE22 REVIEW: Master [2022]

    You can’t get away from it. There’s a great comical interlude about halfway through Mariama Diallo‘s feature debut Master wherein a practically all-white New England university puts together an advertisement for a newly formed “alliance for inclusion.” In it are the only two Black teachers at the school...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Sundance Film Festival 
  • 2022/01/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Donkeyhead [2022]

    I just wanted you to ask for me. You see it often. The “successful” children leave...
    Drama Film Reviews 
  • 2022/01/16 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Definition Please [2022]

    Why did you come back? Monica Chowdry (Sujata Day) was everything her Indian immigrant parents could...
    Comedy Drama Film Reviews 
  • 2022/01/14 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: A Nuvem Rosa [The Pink Cloud] [2021]

    It must be a joke. Despite bowing a year into the COVID pandemic, Iuli Gerbase‘s A...
    Drama Film Reviews Foreign 
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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 Posts & Pages

  • SUNDANCE22 REVIEW: Master [2022]
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Top 10 Lists

  • 2021/12/31 Jared Mobarak 0

    Posterized Propaganda January 2022: The Top 10 Movie Posters of 2021

    “Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column (with a special year-end retrospective today) focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as...
    Film Features Posterized Propaganda Top 10 Lists Top 10 Posters by Year 
  • 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...
    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 

Film Festivals

  • 2022/01/22 Jared Mobarak 0

    SUNDANCE22 REVIEW: Master [2022]

    You can’t get away from it. There’s a great comical interlude about halfway through Mariama Diallo‘s feature debut Master wherein a practically all-white New England university puts together an advertisement for a newly formed “alliance for inclusion.” In it are the only two Black teachers at the school...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Sundance Film Festival 
  • 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...
    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 

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    DESIGN: 2021 In Music

    Tracklisting:Disc 11. “Leda” • Dickon Hinchliffe • 02:15 • The Lost Daughter OST, Maisie Music Publishing, LLC2. “Soledad” • Bomba Estéreo • 03:37 • Deja, Sony Music Entertainment US Latin LLC3. “Forget” • Roosevelt • 05:08 • Polydans, City Slang4. “hold yourself.” • Tune-Yards • 04:51 • sketchy.,...
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  • 2020/12/15 Jared Mobarak 0

    DESIGN: 2020 In Music

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