Jared Mobarak

Jared Mobarak’s Top 10 Films of 2013

Closing out our year-end coverage is individual top ten lists from a variety of The Film Stage contributors, leading up to a cumulative best-of rundown. Make ...

The Best Movie Posters of 2013

Despite being another year of blockbusters and animated fare begging for bland character sheets and Photoshop montages, 2013's movie posters were surprisingly creative artistically. A bunch of the following images selected for this top ten have unique fonts, most only a single actor, and even more some sort of textural filter to make what is a flat, 2D piece of paper into something tactile and worth collecting without the stigma inherent to enjoying the pariah of all art forms known as graphic design....

[Review] 47 Ronin

There have been numerous iterations of Japan's unofficial, national legend about forty-seven ronin who avenged their master's death at the start of the eighteen...

[Review] Grudge Match

Someone had the brilliant idea of putting Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta in the ring together at the ripe old comedic age of seventy and their Hollywood surrogat...

[Review] The Selfish Giant

A contemporary fable thematically adapted from an Oscar Wilde short story and inspired by the world writer/director Clio Barnard entered while filming her docum...

[Review] Jack, Jules, Esther & Me

I was about twenty minutes into Jack, Jules, Esther & Me when worry struck. Centered around two best friends from disparate neighborhoods/social classes in ...

[Review] Crave

When you take a look at Charles de Lauzirika's filmography to see the myriad behind the scenes featurettes and home video productions he's accomplished for the ...

[Review] S#x Acts

Director Jonathan Gurfinkel's debut feature Shesh peamim deals with the important topic of teenage sexual abuse in a way that better make you uncomfortable by ...

[Review] Night Train to Lisbon

Sometimes a well-written story is all you truly need to make a successful film and I believe author Pascal Mercier's novel Night Train to Lisbon provides one. A...

[Review] Diamond on Vinyl

In much the same way J.R. Hughto’s characters interact with one another in made-up dialogue with fictitious personas used to record “rehearsal” conversations or...

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.