Jared Mobarak

[Review] Beware of Mr. Baker

My first thought when researching the documentary Beware of Mr. Baker was acknowledging I really don't know anything about music. Facts about this legendary, un...

[Review] Rise of the Guardians

It was only a matter of time before someone turned our favorite holiday-bound mythical creatures into superheroes. Unsurprisingly it's William Joyce who did. By...

[Review] Citadel

Writer/director Ciaran Foy found the perfect way to distract his audience from questioning the often clichéd actions of horror film protagonists. Instead of mak...

[Review] Atlas Shrugged: Part II

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is one of the most divisive novels ever written with equal numbers hailing her Objectivist manifesto as Bible or deriding it as blasph...

[Review] Least Among Saints

That-guy actor Martin Papazian goes for dramatic gravitas in his directorial debut Least Among Saints and finds more success than not in the process. Wanting to...

[Review] Here Comes the Boom

Let's face it, I haven't thoroughly enjoyed a straight Happy Madison production -- I exclude Apatow's and Binder's because they would have probably been made wi...

[Review] The Thieves

Saying Dodookdeul is the Korean Ocean's 11—like I had been after reading the synopsis—ended up not being as hyperbolic as I originally thought. Coming from one...

[Review] Simon & the Oaks

A tale about family, its many definitions and its discovery through the prism of an unstable time, Marianne Fredriksson's international bestseller Simon och eka...

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.