Jared Mobarak

[Review] Down the Shore

After a longtime career as acting coach for the likes of Jet Li, Harold Guskin heads behind the camera for his directorial debut Down the Shore with the help of...

[Review] Tomorrow You’re Gone

Directing his first film since 2005’s Down in the Valley, David Jacobson finds himself in very similar tonal territory with Tomorrow You’re Gone. Written by Mat...

[Review] Leonie

The saying goes as follows: "behind every great man stands a great woman". No words are truer said for renowned sculptor/designer Isamu Noguchi if Hisako Matsui...

[Review] Graceland

Thrillers with a bit of amorality at their center are always a welcome treat when Hollywood seems too quick to make theirs possess ironclad happy endings. The t...

[Review] Welcome to the Punch

Bolstered by a script ranking number three on the 2010 Brit List—a film industry tabulation of the best unproduced British screenplays—Eran Creevy's Welcome to ...

[Review] Top of the Lake: Parts 1-3

A young boy on a bus—this is the indelible mark left by the first three episodes of Jane Campion and Gerard Lee's miniseries Top of the Lake and it sticks less ...

[SXSW Review] Coldwater

Whether true or not, hearing writer/director Vincent Grashaw wrote the first draft of his debut feature Coldwater right after graduating high school in 1999 was...

[Review] About Sunny

It's intriguing to note how many buzzed-about films depicting parents who don't know how or simply can't do the job were released on the festival circuit betwee...

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.