Jared Mobarak

[Review] Closed Circuit

Director John Crowley is a man with a good eye for picking dynamic screenplays. His feature film debut Intermission is a fun Irish romp, while his sophomore eff...

[Review] Thérèse

Only a 1927 novel can get away with its titular character yearning for a marriage built on land and stability instead of love for no other reason than to quiet ...

[Review] Una Noche

If people didn’t know about the 90-mile expanse of Caribbean waters between Havana, Cuba and Key West, Florida before Elián González in 1999, they certainly did...

[Review] 3 Days of Normal

The romantic comedy is derivative as a point of fact—there are only so many ways an unsuspecting boy and girl can meet and thaw before falling desperately in lo...

[Review] Sparrows Dance

It only seems appropriate that I reviewed a romantic comedy yesterday where I posited its derivativeness to be a direct result of the genre simply having been e...

[Review] This is Martin Bonner

We’re all human beings. I think this is the message writer/director Chad Hartigan shares in his sophomore effort This is Martin Bonner. We make mistakes, we pay...

[Review] TV Junkie

The story of former Inside Edition senior correspondent Rick Kirkman is one of addiction and its debilitating impact on every aspect of life. While such a senti...

[Review] Planes

What should be an auspicious occasion for DisneyToons Studios earning its first theatrical release since 2005's Pooh's Heffalump Movie, the Cars spin-off Planes...

[Review] Blood

Writer Bill Gallagher took on the daunting task of turning his six-part, 360-minute miniseries Conviction into a 90-minute film entitled Blood. It's a tale abou...

[Review] We’re the Millers

An R-rated comedy shouldn’t possess a PG-rated heart. This is We’re the Millers’ main problem because while the profanity-laced adventure has a ton of laughs, o...

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.