Jared Mobarak

[Review] The Machine

With so many writers and directors keen to give us a look at a future ravaged by an impending war between man and his creations, it's always a breath of fresh a...

[Review] Proxy

I learned something while watching Zack Parker's horror (though psychological thriller is a more apt genre label) film Proxy: Richmond, Indiana is a hotbed for ...

[Review] Divergent

Like it or not, the twenty-first century has brought cultural alterations. For instance, the conversation about futuristic dystopias and/or social upheaval no l...

[Review] The Missing Picture

How do you tell the story of something as horrific as Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge's four-year rule over Cambodia after the Kampuchean Revolution when the only f...

[Review] Muppets Most Wanted

Is it a coincidence the Muppet renaissance follows the same trajectory as its subjects' original cinematic saga? 2011's The Muppets was enjoyable if not a tad o...

[Review] Le Week-End

Children are our legacy—our immortality. We sacrifice everything to raise them in our image, hoping for the best until they're set free as fully formed adults r...

[Review] Enemy

When one reads a synopsis for the late Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago’s The Double you’ll find a very straightforward tale of doppelgangers. There’s t...

[Review] Particle Fever

Science! You either see it as the backbone to understanding or you don't, and everyone who doesn't, may want to avoid Mark Levinson's Particle Fever because it'...

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.