[Review] The Man Who Knew Infinity
A bit character in Matt Brown's affecting biographical drama The Man Who Knew Infinity chants "Din, Din, Din, Gunga Din" a couple times in friendly jest as a re...
Jared Mobarak
[Review] Dough
Think of John Goldschmidt's latest film Dough (his first in the director's chair since 1987) as a cinematic peace pipe for race relations and religious zealots....
[Review] Colby
The fallacy of escape is thinking it's possible to truly leave the past behind. You can travel thousands of miles away and put years in between, but the stuff f...
[Review] The American Side
When a film shot in Buffalo, NY co-written and starring a native of the city comes across you're desk you look upon it with a certain level of skepticism. I've ...
Posterized April 2016: ‘Green Room,’ ‘Tale of Tales,’ ‘Louder Than Bombs,’ and More
We look at the best and worst posters of the month....
[Review] Darling
Much like with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the job of caretaker isn't an easy one in Mickey Keating's Darling. It should be: combat any prospective upkeep pr...
[Review] April and the Extraordinary World
Most writing on Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci's April and the Extraordinary World speaks as though they've adapted one of revered Frenchman Jacques Tardi...
[Review] Alienated
Who isn't self-centered? If you find someone, please let me know, because I don't think that person exists. Even when we are at our most compassionate, empathet...
Director Stephen Frears Discusses Capturing a Modern Crime Story With ‘The Program’
It's proving to be a couple of busy months for legendary director Stephen Frears, fresh off his delightful true-life story Philomena making an Oscar run in ...
[Review] Monster Hunt
Even if Monster Hunt were billed in America with "from Raman Hui, the supervising animator of everyone's favorite DreamWorks player, the Gingerbread Man, and co...
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.