Jared Mobarak

[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...

[Review] Hurry Up and Wait

Remember when Atlanta, Georgia based rock band Gringo Star was on everyone's lips and selling out shows throughout the USA back in 2011? Well, it didn't quite w...

[Review] The House I Live In

The Grand Jury Prize winner for documentary at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Eugene Jarecki's look at American drug policy—The House I Live In—began with a d...

[Review] Me @ the Zoo

I didn't know who Chris Crocker was until last year. That tells you how frivolously I use the Internet and keep up with current affairs. I was not watching CNN ...

[Review] The Mayor

Rather than create some sort of exposé about the goings on inside nursing homes and the common belief it is inhumane, cowardly, and disrespectful to place your ...

[Review] Blancanieves

It appears Pablo Berger's silent, black and white interpretation of the Brothers' Grimm's Snow White has become a casualty of its subject's overexposure outside...

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.