[SXSW Review] Deep Web
Alex Winter's new documentary Deep Web provides many unanswered questions the future will certainly shed light on soon. This is its point. While also giving a l...
Jared Mobarak
[Review] Run All Night
There's something to be said about knowing exactly what you're getting and Jaume Collet-Serra is proving consistent enough to deliver that promise through his f...
Posterized March 2015: ‘It Follows,’ ‘Chappie,’ Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter,’ and More
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. 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. Oftentimes they fail miserably....
[Review] Focus
You know that moment in a con movie where you're shown an elaborate sequence full of subtle background action without knowing exactly what's happening until the...
[Review] McFarland, USA
I entered the theater expecting McFarland, USA to be a Million Dollar Arm redux with Latinos in place of Indians. What director Niki Caro actually delivered was...
[Review] Fifty Shades of Grey
Author E.L. James should be ecstatic that the crazy fervor surrounding her trilogy of BD/SM propelled it towards a movie deal because now artists more qualified...
[Review] The Last Five Years
I wanted to blame The Last Five Years' failure on the original musical's creator Jason Robert Brown since director Richard LaGravenese and cast can only do so m...
Posterized February 2015: ‘Jupiter Ascending,’ ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ ‘Focus,’ and More
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuse...
[Review] Jupiter Ascending
Sometimes filmgoers simply want to be entertained and often don't mind when the means of that fun skews towards the headier side of things—no matter how implaus...
[Review] The 2015 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live-Action
Ahead of the Academy Awards, we're reviewing each short category. See the Live Action section below and the other shorts sections here.
Aya – France – 39...
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.