Jared Mobarak

[Review] Inescapable

Acclaimed Arab-Canadian filmmaker Ruba Nadda follows her festival winning romantic drama Cairo Time with the mystery thriller Inescapable. It's new territory fo...

[Review] Brooklyn Castle

With so many documentaries the past few years focusing on adolescent education and the stressful amounts of work our society has deemed appropriate for kids to ...

[Review] A Good Day to Die Hard

While A Good Day to Die Hard may never truly feel like a Die Hard flick, it isn't for a lack of entertainment. Fans love the idea of John McClane (Bruce Willis)...

[Review] Beautiful Creatures

Just like clockwork, the Twilight series has found a successor. Trading vampires and werewolves for witches, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's Caster Chr...

[Review] Identity Thief

The words "from the director of Horrible Bosses" instilled little hope for me sitting down to Seth Gordon's newest work Identity Thief. Screenwriter Craig Mazin...

[Review] Day of the Falcon

The "new" film Day of the Falcon has had an odd trajectory to American theatres. Originally titled Black Gold, Jean-Jacques Annaud's contemporary epic in sand d...

[Review] Wrong

I'm not sure there has ever been a more apt name for a film than the one musician turned filmmaker Quentin Dupieux chose for his newest existentialist romp thro...

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.