Jared Mobarak

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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 ...

[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...

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.