[Review] Approaching the Unknown
While the mission is one thing, your reason for performing it could be drastically different. For Captain William Stanaforth (Mark Strong) the two barely overla...
Jared Mobarak
[Review] Presenting Princess Shaw
Even though Presenting Princess Shaw isn't a film about filmmaking, you can't help wondering about the logistics of its creation considering director Ido Haar i...
[Review] Elstree 1976
Everybody knows Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, and Carrie Fisher. When Disney bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas and announced they'd be producing a new Star Wars ...
[Review] Welcome to Happiness
When you think of short stories like W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw" or Richard Matheson's "Button, Button" (adapted to the small screen for The Twilight Zone a...
[Review] Almost Holy
The most fascinating part of Steve Hoover's latest documentary Almost Holy is how its subject Gennadiy Mokhnenko parallels the life of well-known Russian cartoo...
[Review] Pelé: Birth of a Legend
It may be called Pelé: Birth of a Legend, but Jeff and Michael Zimbalist's film is really about Ginga soccer and Brazil at risk of losing its soul. The climax d...
[Review] Cash Only
An arson insurance scam attempt gone tragically wrong leaves low-rent criminal Elvis Martini (Nickola Shreli) with little to hold onto besides his young daughte...
[Review] Being Charlie
After a string of hits in the 80s and 90s, director Rob Reiner has struggled to achieve the same success. Some of his projects post-2000 have made money and som...
Posterized May 2016: ‘The Lobster,’ ‘The Nice Guys,’ ‘High-Rise,’ and More
This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats....
[HotDocs Review] Hotel Dallas
Despite the name Hotel Dallas and general premise surrounding a replica of Southfork Ranch (where both the old and new Dallas series were filmed) built in Roman...
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.