Jared Mobarak

[Review] Coming Through the Rye

Emmy-winning director James Steven Sadwith makes his feature-directing debut with a story close to his heart. Coming Through the Rye fictionalizes his experienc...

[Review] Jack Goes Home

There's no question that Thomas Dekker's sophomore effort as writer-director is a head-scratcher. What you as a viewer must decide is whether or not to keep scr...

[BIFF Review] Mercy

It's practically impossible to talk about what's happening in Chris Sparling's latest thriller, Mercy, without spoiling it. The writer-director knows, and split...

[BIFF Review] Off the Rails

It starts as a lark: Darius McCollum gets led away in handcuffs with a smile from ear-to-ear. We think this is a guy having fun pretending to be a Metropolitan ...

[BIFF Review] 2307: Winter’s Dream

The year is 2307 and Earth is three centuries removed from climate change transforming its surface to glacial ice. Humanity has evolved to living underground, i...

[BIFF Review] Gold Star

I know what Victoria Negri's debut feature, Gold Star, is about, even if the thing never quite finds the footing to fulfill its promise. It's about a young woma...

[Review] Milton’s Secret

After finding international success with his spiritual teachings through best-selling books The Power of Now and A New Earth, author and counselor Eckhart Tolle...

[TIFF Review] The Animal’s Wife

Colombia's tourism department won't be sanctioning Víctor Gaviria's The Animal's Wife anytime soon and I definitely will never be visiting to see how accurate a...

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.