Jared Mobarak

[Review] Reality

This is what it's like to go insane. Writer/director Quentin Dupieux loves the surreal and absurd, but Réalité takes his penchant for humorous oddity to anothe...

[Tribeca Review] Jackrabbit

Dystopian sci-fi is trendy. Anyone who has any knowledge of today's pop culture could tell you that and it's no surprise Hollywood has jumped on its collective ...

[Review] The Last Time You Had Fun

After watching the trailer and reading the synopsis, it's hard not to see The Last Time You Had Fun in a sort of "been there, done that" light. We've seen it be...

[Review] Furious 7

There's something about this series that's transcended any intellectual discussion about cinema. How else does a lamely derivative version of Point Break substi...

[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...

[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...

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.