Jared Mobarak

[Fantasia Review] Little Sister

Saying Zach Clark's Little Sister being called a comedy does a disservice to the film seems like a slight on the genre. I know. But I don't mean it that way. Wh...

[Fantasia Review] Shelley

Everything starts so innocently that you'd be hard-pressed to realize Ali Abbasi's Shelley is a horror film besides the score's dread-inducing soundscape rising...

[Fantasia Review] Tank 432

Director Ben Wheatley is showing his eye for talent by putting his name behind a guy who's worked closely with him since 2011's Kill List. A filmmaker in his ow...

[Fantasia Review] Realive

It's been humanity's dream since the dawn of time to find the fountain of youth: immortality. To live forever is the ultimate success for humanity's optimistic ...

[Fantasia Review] Man Underground

Aliens are here. That's the message Willem Koda (George Basil) would have us believe — the 360 viewers clicking on his YouTube channel's posts. He's an ex-geolo...

[Fantasia Review] The Alchemist Cookbook

I have no clue why Sean (Ty Hickson) messes with the titular book in Joel Potrykus' The Alchemist Cookbook. He doesn't seem to care about money while living as ...

[Review] Summertime

While a romance on its surface, Catherine Corsini's Summertime is really about freedom. The central relationship between Delphine (Izïa Higelin) and Carole (Céc...

[Review] Fathers and Daughters

The works of director Gabriele Muccino aren't for everyone. I can't speak on his Italian films, but the American ones are unavoidably cloying and sentimental in...

Jared Mobarak

Jared Mobarak is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic for The Film Stage, Art Director for Buffalo, NY film series Cultivate Cinema Circle, and member of OFCS and GWNYFCA. You can follow his cinematic viewing habits at Letterboxd.