Venice Review: Goliath is a Compelling Yet Unsurprising Biblically Inspired Drama
If a local village warlord discovers he's in a movie titled Goliath, he better watch his back. It doesn't matter what his origin story is—and Poshaev (Daniyar ...
Jared Mobarak
Venice Review: Dogborn is a Suspenseful Examination of the Complexity of Victimhood
The twins (Silvana Imam's Sister and Philip Oros' Brother) have nothing since their mother passed away. No house. No jobs. No money. Brother doesn't even have ...
Venice Review: Skin Deep Tears Down Walls of Gender, Sexuality, Psychology, and Identity
What makes a person? Mind or body? Take that line of inquiry even further and ask what it is you love about your significant other. Is it how they look or who ...
House of Darkness Review: Justin Long Gets Caught in a Game of Seduction in Neil LaBute’s Acerbic Thriller
Hap (Justin Long) can barely believe his luck. Drunk at the bar and prone to delivering corny pick-up lines, he decides to chat up Mina (Kate Bosworth) only to...
Posterized September 2022: Blonde, Speak No Evil, Peter von Kant & More
It's another month devoid of big studio properties hijacking theater screens unless you consider a week-long engagement of Clerks III (September 13) fr...
Out of the Blue Review: Neil LaBute’s Noir is a Silly Exercise in Delayed Gratification
A new cinematic drinking game has arrived. It's a doozy, too, when taking a shot every time writer-director Neil LaBute uses an intertitle demarking time in Ou...
The Legend of Molly Johnson Review: Australian Western Captures a Powerful Pursuit for Justice
A favorite of Leah Purcell's as a child, Henry Lawson's short story "The Drover's Wife" was always at the front of her mind when growing into adulthood as an a...
The Immaculate Room Review: Emile Hirsch and Kate Bosworth Get Pushed to Their Breaking Point
On its surface, The Immaculate Room is a contest. A game. If you and your romantic partner can spend fifty days in a stark white room with nothing but a bed, m...
Get Away If You Can Review: A Relationship is Tested in Rocky Aquatic Thriller
Some people deserve a second chance. Few deserve a third. Especially when we're talking about having a modicum of human decency for the person you say you love...
Orphan: First Kill Review: An Inconsequential, Wonky Prequel
Screenwriters Alex Mace and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick gave their character Leena Klammer, aka Esther Albright, a complete back story at the end of Jaume ...
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.