Jared Mobarak

[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...

[Fantasia Review] The Harvest

I can see why director John McNaughton chose Stephen Lancellotti's script The Harvest to be his first feature length film in thirteen years, but I'm not sure it...

[Fantasia Review] Cheatin’

Inspired by the works of James M. Cain such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, iconic animator Bill Plympton's Kickstarted feature film Che...

[Review] The Purge: Anarchy

I mostly enjoyed last year's suspense horror The Purge, despite high expectations for the premise actually going where it needed to prove more than another gene...

[NYAFF Review] The Snow White Murder Case

Based on a 2012 novel written by Kanae Minato, The Snow White Murder Case is very much a product of our time. A satirical take on the Twitter age that also to a...

[NYAFF Review] Firestorm

For fifty minutes—minus one crazy hand-to-hand combat fight on top of a fallen metal gate suspended over two adjacent buildings' fire escapes in midair—writer/d...

[NYAFF Review] Soul

Described in equal measure as a slasher horror and psychological meditation on the soul—whether from demonic possession, reincarnation, or both—Taiwan's entry f...

[Review] Tammy

I like Melissa McCarthy and her trademarked hard-edged, scumbag persona in films. She's often the best part of things that don't work (Identity Thief) and those...

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.