Jared Mobarak

[Review] The Mule

Directors Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson's The Mule is not at all what one might expect. The marketing materials draw it up as a B-movie romp, something the invo...

[Review] Thou Wast Mild & Lovely

She is not kidding when she says: "To those who feel that their cruelty is too cruel, their sadness too sad, I dedicate this film: an embrace." Writer/director ...

[Review] Dumb and Dumber To

Not even the movie that started it all can save the fledgling career of the Farrelly brothers. Despite reading an interview of them speaking about how great the...

[Review] Always Woodstock

The feature debut of writer/director Rita Merson is mired in convention. Think to yourself about five cinematic tropes that could be found in a romantic dramedy...

[Review] Big Hero 6

Many parents aren't going to allow their young children to watch Marvel Cinematic Universe films—they skew older with dark underlying themes and comic book viol...

[Review] 1,000 Times Good Night

Being an embedded photojournalist is a concept I cannot quite wrap my head around. To willingly go into a war zone and risk your life to get a shot, not for pla...

[Review] The Living

An interesting choice was made on Jack Bryan's film The Living—one that occurred before the camera rolled. If you're familiar with Fran Kranz's emotionally frac...

[Review] The Overnighters

The easiest thing I could say about The Overnighters is that director Jesse Moss got lucky. He looked to tell the story about a pastor doing God's will against ...

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.