[Review] The Magic of Belle Isle
As the years progress and his workload diminishes, director Rob Reiner has chosen to spend his time bringing what he calls "life-affirming material" to the big ...
Jared Mobarak
[Review] Savages
Who's crueler: a vicious Mexican cartel who decapitate men to send a message, or a couple of Laguna boys trying -- and willing to do whatever it takes -- to pro...
[NYAFF Review] Scabbard Samurai
Sometimes foreign language films simply exist across an insurmountable cultural divide that renders them indecipherable here. Hitoshi Matsumoto's Saya-zamurai ...
[NYAFF Review] Nameless Gangster
Set against President Tae-woo Roh's 1990 crackdown on organized crime in South Korea, Bumchoiwaui junjaeng places us into the wild life of a former Busan custo...
Posterized Propaganda July 2012: Meet the New Poster, Same as the Old One
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuse...
[Review] Ted
If you looked at the trailers for Seth MacFarlane's Ted and thought it would be a full-length, live action riff on his popular animated television show "Family ...
[Review] That’s My Boy
Just when you thought Adam Sandler had hit bottom and could only improve upon a lackluster string of films that make you question the quality of his earlier gem...
[Interview] ‘Extraterrestrial’ Writer/Director Nacho Vigalondo on Humanity, Hitchcock & More
After finding great international success with his debut feature film Timecrimes in 2007, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo performed a bit of a 180 for his s...
[Review] Extraterrestrial
You wake in a strange place without memory of arriving. You see light's curved shadows on the wall through clouded eyes while a chorus of clanging is heard in t...
[Review] Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
A round of applause for directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath—and Conrad Vernon who joins them to expand on his responsibilities playing Mason the monkey—becau...
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.