Jared Mobarak

[TIFF Review] Shores of Hope

It's East Berlin, 1984—an entire nation under the Stasi's watchful eye. Freedom is near impossible without risk of arrest or bullet courtesy of a botched escape...

[Review] For Ellen

Looking to reconcile her feelings about being a successful parent, wife and filmmaker with her child turning two, writer/director So Yong Kim decided to delve i...

[Review] Girl Model

Documentaries find success through compelling stories. Whether a salacious expose on an industry many looking in don't understand or a stirring rags-to-riches t...

[Review] The Ambassador

Did you ever wonder what a guy like Sacha Baron Cohen could accomplish if his satirical bent towards political upheaval had more than cheap laughs as its goal? ...

[Review] Sparkle

I can't wait for the Director's Cut. No, not Criterion's much ballyhooed 216-minute edit of Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. I'm talking about Salim Akil's Spark...

[Review] The Bourne Legacy

There was bound to be fallout after Jason Bourne ran amok avenging his girlfriend's death and shutting down the government agencies that turned him into a cold-...

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.