Jared Mobarak

[Review] Frozen

Over half a century in the making, Disney’s adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen has finally made it to the big screen. It was 1943 when Walt ...

[Review] Narco Cultura

It's truly stunning to see something so horrendously volatile as the Mexican narcotics trade glorified to the point of celebrity by naïve outsiders far removed ...

[Review] The Poor and Hungry

A guy like John Singleton doesn't just finance independent films like Hustle & Flow without first understanding the talent its writer/director possesses to ...

[Review] Cold Turkey

The lesson to be learned from Will Slocombe’s Cold Turkey is that you should never confide family secrets with the uncontrollable loose cannon of the bunch. Bec...

[Review] Thor: The Dark World

There was something off with 2011's Thor: while many believe Iron Man 2 was nothing but an evolutionary bridge for its hero to move closer towards what The Aven...

[Review] Big Sur

I’ve never read a novel by Jack Kerouac—the only Beat Generation tome I have leafed through is William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch—but I imagine the experience is...

[Review] Last Love

Do not watch the trailer for writer-director Sandra Nettelbeck’s Last Love (formerly Mr. Morgan’s Last Love). For many that shouldn’t be a problem because, like...

[Review] Our Day Will Come

Europe possesses a couple vocabulary words that we Americans wouldn’t take seriously if heard uttered in conversation. There’s a prejudice across the Atlantic—e...

[Review] Broadway Idiot

I remember picking up Green Day’s American Idiot with trepidation in 2004. Dookie is, without a doubt, a classic, while Insomniac proved to be a worthy follow-u...

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.