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 High-Rise
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
641 movie reviews
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    The Villainess
    There’s something about the overwrought relationships and hidden connections that amplify our excitement. Jung is moving things so fast (despite a runtime just over two hours) that we’re never afforded a pause to roll our eyes or laugh. We instead buckle down since each revelation means Sook-hee is given another reason to fight.
    • 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.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 42 Jared Mobarak
    Savage Dog
    Only when limbs literally start flying through the air did I truly find myself invested in what was onscreen. It’s too bad it came way too late.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    The Transfiguration
    Where O’Shea succeeds and Hollywood often fails is acknowledging the pain and sorrow so many feel can’t magically disappear. To be cognizant of your own evil is to accept its cost. Realizing you are the monster might be the worst punishment you could ever endure.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Dave Made a Maze
    Where things go is easy to guess considering the plot’s rather simple trajectory of personal growth and emotional maturity, but the pathway is always surprising.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Man Underground
    The journey is ultimately as sweetly funny as it’s emotionally tragic.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Lucky
    Lucky isn’t perfect as a person or a film, but there’s something fitting about this. Escape from his character’s situation won’t ever be clean and Kang ensures to never pretend it will.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 42 Jared Mobarak
    Cars 3
    While the intent for gender equality is welcome, the execution subverts that goal.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Moscow Never Sleeps
    O’Reilly has crafted a meticulously drawn tapestry of universal human themes within a setting that’s as unique as it is familiar.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Handsome Devil
    Butler’s film may be beholden to certain clichéd conventions and formulaic familiarity in its progression, but its characters evolve within them with an authenticity that dismisses such convenience as a way of life.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Jared Mobarak
    The Exception
    The Exception is merely a serviceable drama taking us on a competent if predictable journey.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Churchill
    As directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, the film carries with it a theatrical style heavy on dialogue with everything portrayed in close-up besides some very attractive wide shots setting each scene.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    The Women's Balcony
    What The Women’s Balcony provides is a universal theme. At one time or another we all must reconcile our idealism with morality. We must look past literal meanings to embrace subjective ones able to encompass a broader swath of the surrounding world.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
    While there’s the underlying notion of it telling us a captivating story from the annals of American history, it’s his depiction of the adversarial relationship between those making decisions and those affected by them that hits home.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    3 Generations
    [Fanning’s] performance is what you’d expect and the character is too—strong, dedicated, and on the cusp of hopelessness. It’s because of this that Watts actually shines brighter.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 42 Jared Mobarak
    Rupture
    Suspense moves to boredom, boredom to frustration, and frustration to ambivalence.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Sand Castle
    Roessner hasn’t written an anti-war or pro-war film. Sand Castle merely shows the honesty of war’s infinite complexities.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Tramps
    Be content with flirtation because it’s more than enough when coupled with a pair of the most charming performances of the year.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Jared Mobarak
    Furious 7
    There’s so much happening that the whole gets boring for long stretches throughout.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Tommy's Honour
    Connery does well with the period aesthetic while Cook/Marin find the captivating vein running through the Morris family for optimal emotional success.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    City of Tiny Lights
    Director Pete Travis lends the evening setting a welcomingly mysterious glow amongst its shadows, visually complementing Neate’s plotting to bring us into the action on the ground floor.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    The Void
    Its style is audacious, its plot minimalist, and its future full of potential.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Jared Mobarak
    Going in Style
    There are no surprises, for better or worse.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    Gifted
    Gifted proves cutely endearing and effectively poignant if not especially memorable in any “everyone needs to see it” way.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 91 Jared Mobarak
    Your Name.
    Shinkai’s film opens up from cute stranger-in-a-strange-body antics and expands into a philosophical and metaphysical parable about fate.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
    If there’s one thing to take from watching Tony engage with his own past, it’s the gleeful delight he shows when talking about rejection. He wore every instance that viewers didn’t like what he made as a badge of honor.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Burn Your Maps
    Don’t think this story is one steeped in heavy drama from start to finish without room to breathe. Roberts’ script — written from an original idea by Robyn Joy Leff — is also very funny.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Jared Mobarak
    The Dark Below
    It’s one thing if The Dark Below sought campy implausibility, but it craves legitimacy instead.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 42 Jared Mobarak
    Drifter
    This should be an intense ride to oblivion or perhaps even a satirical romp chock full of self-indulgent camp, but it proves to be neither.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Tanna
    It’s a familiar tale pitting selfish desire against the greater good, but it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen thanks to the wondrous South Pacific landscapes.
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