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  • 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...
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  • 2021/06/10 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Los nôtres [2021]
    What are you hiding from me? It takes a village. That’s what...
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  • 2021/04/26 Jared Mobarak 0
    The 93rd Oscars recap through tweets …
    If you’re going to hire a director like Steven Soderbergh to handle...
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  • 2021/03/30 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Shiva Baby [2021]
    No funny business. All bets are off the moment Danielle (Rachel Sennott)...
    Comedy Film Reviews z.slideshow 
  • 2021/03/10 Jared Mobarak 0
    REVIEW: Quo vadis, Aida? [2020]
    We just need to stick together. Some stories don’t leave room for...
    Drama Film Reviews Foreign War z.slideshow 
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Film Reviews

  • 2021/07/21 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Old [2021]

    Stop wishing away this moment. The first mention I heard about M. Night Shyamalan adapting Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters‘ French graphic novel Sandcastle was a tweet that more or less stated how he knew he had to try turning it into a film the moment he put...
    Drama Film Reviews Suspense/Thriller 
  • 2021/07/20 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: F9: The Fast Saga [2021]

    Things change. One familiar name reenters the franchise as another leaves (or, more accurately, shifts laterally)...
    Action/Adventure Film Reviews 
  • 2021/07/19 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Maximum Overdrive [1986]

    It turned itself on and it bit me! To read Stephen King‘s short story “Trucks” (from...
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  • 2021/07/18 Jared Mobarak 0

    REVIEW: Settlers [2021]

    No one’s gonna mess with you, kid. The thing about withholding plot information is that you...
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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...
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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

  • 2021/07/09 Jared Mobarak 0

    CANNES21 REVIEW: Retour A Reims [Fragments] [2021]

    A war is waged on the dominated. The MIT Press describes Didier Eribon‘s book Returning to Reims as “A memoir and meditation on individual and class identity, and the forces that keep us locked in political closets.” The author never went back home upon leaving until after his...
    Cannes Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign 
  • 2021/07/08 Jared Mobarak 0

    CANNES21 REVIEW: Aya [2021]

    We can’t leave our sand behind. Living on the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean would be...
    Cannes Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign 
  • 2021/07/05 Jared Mobarak 0

    CANNES21 REVIEW: H6 [2021]

    Laughter is a good remedy. Some hospitals are better suited for your needs than others no...
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  • 2021/07/02 Jared Mobarak 0

    CANNES21 REVIEW: El Empleado y El Patron [The Employer and the Employee] [2021]

    I’m sorry about what happened. All relationships are to some extent transactional, but none more than...
    Cannes Drama Film Features Film Festival Film Reviews Foreign 

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    DESIGN: 2020 In Music

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    DESIGN: 2019 In Music

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