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  • 2021/01/29 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Little Fish [2021]
    I was so sad the day I met you. It happens slow...
    Film Reviews Romance Science Fiction z.slideshow 
  • 2021/01/25 Jared Mobarak 0
    Online Film Critics Society Ballot 2020
    Below is my January 20th ballot for the 24th annual Online Film...
    Top 10 Films by Year Top 10 Lists z.slideshow 
  • 2021/01/11 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: The Reason I Jump [2021]
    Have a nice trip through our world. There’s no better advocate for...
    Documentary Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2021/01/06 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: The Dig [2021]
    I had my feeling. When Simon Stone‘s The Dig begins with Basil...
    Biography Drama Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2020/12/14 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Dick Johnson is Dead [2020]
    I’ve always wanted to be in the movies. A steady stream of...
    Documentary Film Reviews z.slideshow 
Top 100 Films of the Decade: 2010-2019

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

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Film Reviews

  • 2021/03/01 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Boss Level [2021]

    Yesterday was months ago. Add another entry to the time loop directory with Joe Carnahan‘s Boss Level arriving as this month’s installment of what feels like a monthly ritual these days. It’s not socially relevant like The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, emotionally poignant like Before I Fall, genre-bending...
    Action/Adventure Film Reviews Science Fiction 
  • 2021/02/28 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Raya and the Last Dragon [2021]

    Who’s hungry? As Raya (Kelly Marie Tran) states during her expository prologue to Don Hall and...
    Action/Adventure Animation Family Film Reviews 
  • 2021/02/28 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Us Again [2021]

    The jazzy notes of Pinar Toprak‘s score act as a living soundtrack to the world of...
    Animation Family Film Reviews Shorts 
  • 2021/02/27 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Boogie [2021]

    Love will melt the sharpest sword. As writer/director Eddie Huang‘s fortune teller states, when a dragon...
    Drama Film Reviews 
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
    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

  • 2021/02/25 Jared Mobarak 0

    BERLINALE21 REVIEW: Tabija [The White Fortress] [2021]

    Something always comes up. The line between fairy tale and horror proves a thin one in Igor Drljaca‘s Tabija thanks to the differing perspectives of young love in Sarajevo. Whether Faruk (Pavle Cemerikic) and Mona (Sumeja Dardagan) believe a life together may yet be possible for them despite...
    Berlinale Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign 
  • 2021/02/23 Jared Mobarak 0

    BERLINALE21 REVIEW: La Mif [The Fam] [2021]

    We’re a fam now. The big draw to Fred Baillif‘s fictional look inside a residential care...
    Berlinale Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign 
  • 2021/02/08 Jared Mobarak 0

    SLAM21 REVIEW: Nulle trace [No Trace] [2021]

    What would I gain? Not knowing is the point. At least that’s what writer/director Simon Lavoie...
    Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign 
  • 2021/01/31 Jared Mobarak 0

    SUNDANCE21 REVIEW: In the Earth [2021]

    You worried she’s going to get you? There’s a shared ambition during times like worldwide pandemics...
    Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Horror Sundance Film Festival 

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    DESIGN: 2020 In Music

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