Jared Mobarak

[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...

[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] Still Life

Oscar-nominated producer (for The Full Monty) Uberto Pasolini's second film as writer/director isn't easily categorized. Aptly labeled with the hybridized compr...

[Review] Blackhat

Is there a way for a village to get wiped out—buildings and people—and still ensure the dogs are safe? No. So why do Michael Mann and Morgan Davis Foehl write B...

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.