Jared Mobarak

[NYAFF Review] The Last Tycoon

Director Jing Wong’s 大上海 is an intriguing entry to the period gangster genre that depicts the weight of triad influence in 1930s Shanghai at the cusp of war wi...

[NYAFF Review] Mystery

Having already been banned from filmmaking in China twice, it's no surprise director Lou Ye has refused to quell his appetites for highly sexualized, naturalist...

[Review] Despicable Me 2

When we last saw super villain Gru (Steve Carell) in Despicable Me he had just returned the moon to its rightful place in the sky, retired from evil and become ...

[NYAFF Review] A Muse

Breeding our youth to dream of happily ever afters with an allure of fairy tale romance may do them a disservice by completely ignoring love’s equally prevalent...

[Review] Some Girl(s)

Often labeled a misogynist misanthrope, Neil LaBute has made a career of writing self-absorbed characters completely ruining the lives of those around them for ...

[Review] Downloaded

Can you believe Napster existed at full capacity for only one year? One year! As the men—nay, boys—behind the peer-to-peer music-sharing phenomenon tell it, the...

[Review] Fame High

A real life version of Fame on the west coast, Scott Hamilton Kennedy’s coming-of-age documentary Fame High shows us the pressures of pursuing an arts education...

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.