Jared Mobarak

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For 635 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jared Mobarak's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Moonlight
Lowest review score: 25 The Dark Below
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 464 out of 635
  2. Mixed: 153 out of 635
  3. Negative: 18 out of 635
635 movie reviews
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Blood on Her Name
    A lot happens during the course of director Matthew Pope and co-writer Don M. Thompson’s Blood on Her Name … too much. This can prove problematic for what starts as a simple plot before things start turning convoluted real quick thanks to new revelations shedding light upon secrets and lies. Surprisingly, however, that perpetually escalating noise is justified.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Concrete Valley
    So much of Concrete Valley adopts a quiet, almost off-putting awkwardness that you’ll either embrace or not.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Revenge
    Right when I was ready to resign myself to the thought that Revenge simply started too strong to maintain itself, Fargeat brought me back from the brink with a tense labyrinthine conclusion making use of its locale and blood as plot propulsion.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Rojo
    I was entertained and perplexed in a way that seemed intentional — my confusion a result of Naishtat giving his audience the credit to read into things with their own historical and political interpretations.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Jared Mobarak
    Lady of the Manor
    It’s light, absurd, and very low-stakes.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Iannucci is picking and choosing our alignments for us with his desire for as much humor as possible. Devoid of the breadth necessary to make these characters more than comic relief, however, it becomes difficult to buy the pursuit of David’s victory above all others.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The Hand of God
    We might still miss Sorrentino’s prior, more unforgiving tone, and his sleek filmmaking style; it’s arguable this material doesn’t mine the best of his strengths.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The Deeper You Dig
    While Poser and Adams do so much to overcome the production’s limitations, they unavoidably show through nonetheless.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The Rape of Recy Taylor
    Whatever issues I have with the final construction don’t alter the reality that Recy Taylor’s story must be told and seen.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Jared Mobarak
    The Alchemist Cookbook
    I bet another viewing would reveal missed details, but the threat of being wrong and finding myself enduring the slow, quiet madness again scares me.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Metal Lords
    It’s not laugh-out-loud funny, but I was smiling for the duration, and its subversions of certain archetypes (see Noah Urrea’s Clay) kept things marginally fresh. Good and bad, it met expectations.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Frybread Face and Me
    The film is playing with familiar tropes along a formulaic path, but it’s simply too endearing to dismiss outright.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 42 Jared Mobarak
    Brad's Status
    The film becomes so self-aware that it’s tough to discern whether we should take what’s happening seriously or not.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 42 Jared Mobarak
    Encounter
    Pearce and Barton set up this heavy emotional narrative dealing with mental illness, PTSD, and familial love only to undercut it with loud overtures of systemic violence devoid of textual basis.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Rebuilding Paradise
    It’s the type of human-interest story that touches upon the surface of what occurred in a way that hits audiences emotionally without actually saying much.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
    This film leans hard into its irreverence, knowingly sacrificing mystery and twists for foolproof laughs.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The Monster
    The end result isn’t bad; its potential merely creates disappointment.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Jared Mobarak
    BuyBust
    Add a surprisingly talkie ending that tries to walk back the no-holds-barred bloodshed for the revelation of a secret I honestly didn’t care about anymore and I found myself fatigued rather than excited.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Paper Spiders
    For director Inon Shampanier and co-writer Natalie Shampanier to tackle something so complex is therefore commendable whether or not Paper Spiders proves a complete success.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The First Purge
    The First Purge becomes a call to arms so to speak (sometimes to its detriment) — a reminder that we must stand up and for each other at the voting booths and in our communities now so we won’t need the civil war of Election Year.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The Water Man
    Chavis and Miller excel at living in the complicated areas of their characters’ psyches and the supporting cast doesn’t miss a beat in allowing them the room to do so, I think Oyelowo’s refusal to go all the way with the fantasy makes what little there is trivial.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Imperium
    Just as things get bumpy and tensions rise, a bow-tied resolution commences, devoid of stakes yet overflowing with heavy-handed message.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Feast of the Seven Fishes
    Tinnell captures the warmth of kinship and tradition while displaying the truly unique immigrant experience of putting down roots and working to improve life for future generations. We should all aspire to experience that much love because nothing calls out its absence more than remembering its abundance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Monsters and Men
    The film doesn’t supply easy answers and also has its characters making some unsurprising choices in ways that let us know how much it will haunt them. Even with this sense of complexity, however, Monsters and Men still can’t stop itself from dipping too far into hyperbolic moments made more powerful by artifice than they ultimately prove.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    PG: Psycho Goreman
    By never attempting to give anyone on-screen a path towards redemption, Kostanski keeps things entertaining.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Better Watch Out
    Only when I was certain of the stakes could I sit back and let the proceedings unfold, my skepticism evaporating to appreciate the sadistically laid plans.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    American Murder: The Family Next Door
    Maybe my criticism of American Murder is more a criticism of the genre itself and how its desire to shed light on crimes inherently exploits them regardless of intent. Popplewell’s film is an expertly researched prologue to a much-needed conversation it avoids.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Jared Mobarak
    Furious 7
    There’s so much happening that the whole gets boring for long stretches throughout.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Jolt
    Our enjoyment of her quest for blood thus hinges more upon how fun we consider the humor Wascha and Wexler provide than the action itself.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Shadow in the Cloud
    Those who enjoy a good hoot and holler with a midnight crowd will surely revel in it while those who don’t will roll their eyes and wonder what’s happening since the reveal of Maude’s mission does become way too heavy-handed for its melodrama to rise above the hollow action trappings.
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