Jared Mobarak

[Review] Metro Manila

The impetus for Sean Ellis' Metro Manila could have simply been an intriguing anecdote to tell people upon returning to England from a trip visiting a friend in...

[Review] If I Stay

I am not a proponent of stories that hinge the possibility of undying live between teenagers on an unspeakable tragedy. This was my biggest issue with the overw...

[Review] The Hundred-Foot Journey

With Chocolat and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen under his belt, The Hundred-Foot Journey isn't anything approaching new territory for director Lasse Hallström. Bu...

[Review] Into the Storm

We need to talk about Into the Storm's unsung hero: Lucas. Played by Lee Whittaker, most won't think twice about his character standing on the sidelines with ca...

[Fantasia Review] Preservation

When Christopher Denham's Preservation shows recently discharged vet Sean Neary (Pablo Schreiber) telling sister-in-law Wit (Wrenn Schmidt) about how playing wa...

[Fantasia Review] Ejecta

Many might take my comparing Ejecta to The Fourth Kind as a slight, but I actually enjoy the latter feature. While Chad Archibald and Matt Wiele's science ficti...

[Fantasia Review] Time Lapse

While ultimately a flawed film, Time Lapse does do what every memorable sci-fi brainteaser should: it makes you blind to the obvious. I bought into the premise ...

[Review] Very Good Girls

Writer/director Naomi Foner wants to tell us about the messiness of life through two eighteen-year old girls during their final summer before college. You'd ass...

[Fantasia Review] The Infinite Man

There are some great science fiction films that deal with time travel in a way blockbusters like The Terminator simply cannot due to scale and want for mass app...

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.