Jared Mobarak

[Review] Army of One

To hear about Gary Faulkner is to know the meaning of the phrase "stranger than fiction." This is a Chatty Cathy of a Colorado handyman who was visited by God o...

[Review] The Ivory Game

If you went to a Regal Cinema during the month prelude to The Legend of Tarzan's release you will know the insane statistics depicting the sharp decline of livi...

[Review] The Unspoken

There are only so many iterations of the haunted house trope and yet they continue getting made. Sometimes we're lucky with James Wan's The Conjuring series del...

[Review] Coming Through the Rye

Emmy-winning director James Steven Sadwith makes his feature-directing debut with a story close to his heart. Coming Through the Rye fictionalizes his experienc...

[Review] Jack Goes Home

There's no question that Thomas Dekker's sophomore effort as writer-director is a head-scratcher. What you as a viewer must decide is whether or not to keep scr...

[BIFF Review] Mercy

It's practically impossible to talk about what's happening in Chris Sparling's latest thriller, Mercy, without spoiling it. The writer-director knows, and split...

[BIFF Review] Off the Rails

It starts as a lark: Darius McCollum gets led away in handcuffs with a smile from ear-to-ear. We think this is a guy having fun pretending to be a Metropolitan ...

[BIFF Review] 2307: Winter’s Dream

The year is 2307 and Earth is three centuries removed from climate change transforming its surface to glacial ice. Humanity has evolved to living underground, i...

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.