Jared Mobarak

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For 641 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: 470 out of 641
  2. Mixed: 153 out of 641
  3. Negative: 18 out of 641
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    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    White Boy Rick
    It’s wild to think that Merritt has never acted before because he commands our attention with a mix of charismatic comedy and a sobering display of optimism in the face of annihilation.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    The Front Runner
    Reitman and company let actions do the talking for a good two-thirds of the runtime and it’s a true joy to experience. The actors have brilliant comic timing with one another and everyone feels as though they’ve been on the road to cultivate relationships built on respect.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Capernaum
    Capernaum is a poignant character study of a boy being punished for the crimes of a system that never gave him a chance.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Jared Mobarak
    Beautiful Boy
    If this was Nic’s story from the start I wouldn’t know a better avenue existed. And if it remained David’s throughout I could continue seeing the teen as the tragic cautionary tale he should be rather than the selfish plot device he becomes. On a purely aesthetic level, however, Beautiful Boy succeeds.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The Predator
    Black has never seemed like someone who needed cheap tricks to earn an honest smile. But that’s where we are and you’ll either decide to go along for the ride regardless or check out.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Five Fingers For Marseilles
    Everything you want from a western thematically is present with arch stereotypes of good and evil prevalent but never detrimental to the characters.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    The Bookshop
    What appears to be a run-of-the-mill drama that will surely fall into the usual clichés of perseverance and eventual victory about a woman standing up to a small town of bullies that sees her as an outsider is actually much more complex.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    What Still Remains
    By fast-forwarding through the initial carnage and fallout of what civilization’s destruction wrought, Mendoza is able to create a fresh environment of extremes.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    The Ranger
    This film is about ownership of one’s actions. It’s about accepting that which you cannot run from. No matter how dark that reality appears, however, The Ranger is also very funny.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    The Swan
    While Sól’s trajectory is the plot’s main thrust, she’s really a conduit to a vérité depiction of life’s myriad complexities.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Elizabeth Harvest
    Gutierrez does well to share just enough information so that each subsequent revelation can reframe everything before it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 91 Jared Mobarak
    Night Comes On
    The whole therefore hinges upon Fishback’s performance and she assuredly carries it upon her shoulders.
    • 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.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
    Tyrnauer captures this figure with empathy, humor, and as much fascination as we too possess watching. At the end of the day Bowers’ list of clientele is far less captivating than the fact each member loved and trusted him as an equal.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 33 Jared Mobarak
    Fireworks
    What should be tender and whimsical feels repetitive and off-putting.
    • 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.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Skyscraper
    No matter how hokey or neatly cyclical things get, Johnson excels.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    The Night Eats the World
    The Night Eats the World gazes upon what’s left of society through a lens of pragmatism. It acknowledges that humanity is barely beating back its own extinction, that survivors are the minority and therefore minutes from oblivion if they cannot adapt.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Under the Tree
    You’ll find yourselves laughing and hating yourself for doing so because Sigurðsson doesn’t play scenes for comedy despite very obviously writing for it. This is a testament to his direction and the actors’ heightened states of borderline farce played with complete sincerity.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    This Is Congo
    McCabe’s goal for his film is to show the chaos objectively and thus not take sides or betray the reality of just how corrupt this fight proves. He places hubris, dignity, fear, and courage onscreen—raw and unfiltered.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Never Steady, Never Still
    This film becomes a journey of trials and tribulations with as much inspirational grace as crippling resentment.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    The Year of Spectacular Men
    That pace can also lead to some wonky performative moments, but everyone is earnest and charming enough to overcome brief lapses pushing for a laugh.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    What Will People Say
    It’s about hypocrisy, mistrust, and the struggle felt by second-generation immigrants everywhere. And Haq pulls no punches in depicting just how devastatingly bad things can get when a child’s mind is torn between a community built on archaic ideals and another entrenched in a present where such stringent rules prove impossible to uphold.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Goodland
    The result is a tense thriller with noir undertones revealing a more complex web than we ever could predict. Not every discovery is tough to guess, but each carries another question to distract us from a desire to pat ourselves on the back or presume we’ve cracked the case.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Beast
    Buckley and Flynn keep us on our toes, their darkened malice turning to teary-eyed contrition until we’re left hopeless as far as figuring out which is more real.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Papillon
    Noer isn’t interested in the pulpy, wannabe mythic journey of Papillon when there’s a meatier through-line highlighting our humanity in dire straits. Rather than make his film about how far our bodies can go, he seeks to portray the lengths are hearts will.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Book Club
    Book Club...excels not in its boldness to be risqué, but its boldness to portray vulnerability. It’s about love’s risk versus reward and the acknowledgement that present happiness is worth the future’s potential pain.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Deadpool 2
    It still works. Maybe not as well, since the element of shock and awe can’t be put back into its bottle, but anyone who enjoyed Wilson’s transformation into a bullet-hole-riddled leotard that can’t shut up should have as much fun.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Curvature
    It can be a bit too pandering at times when things that read visually and emotionally are also explained verbally, but I don’t think these moments ruin the effectiveness of the over-arching narrative propulsion. The central journey works quite well in motive and deception to hold our interest as far as discovering where it will all lead. From start to finish that trajectory kept me hooked.
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