Jared Mobarak

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For 592 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.9 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 Trespassers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 426 out of 592
  2. Mixed: 148 out of 592
  3. Negative: 18 out of 592
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    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Employee of the Month
    While Employee of the Month might start slow as it sets this stylistically heightened (yet completely believable) premise, it doesn’t take long for chaos to reign supreme.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Geographies of Solitude
    Sable becomes a nexus point of preservation and destruction. Lucas captures it all as data while Mills unleashes the artistry of those numbers courtesy of sight and sound. Beauty lives in death. Suffering is born from life. Everything is connected.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Queens of the Qing Dynasty
    While Star and An fantasize and joke about wishing they could become trophy wives of old, their roads are not paved in gold. Having each other sitting shotgun, however, does make the trip a whole lot brighter.
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    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Riceboy Sleeps
    We’re witnessing a nuanced reorganization of priorities within both Dong-Hyun and So-Young at different speeds.
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    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    The End of Sex
    Emma and Josh are experiencing this weird journey together just like they did the enriching if celibate one before it. And we want them to come out the other side stronger even as they spiral out of control.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Giving Birth to a Butterfly
    Schaefer and Lawler pack their rounded vignette of full-frame 16mm film with contradictions, thematic mirrors, and unexplainable phenomena that confounds in its beauty just as easily as it enlightens through its complexity.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Sanctuary
    Abbott and Qualley unload everything from physical to emotional to psychological abuse, both roles desperate to solidify their respective superiority and restore the status quo. Rediscover balance by admitting their desires. Who knows? They might just fulfill them too.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Full River Red
    For every person who finds the tone a welcome inclusion that helps make this two-and-a-half-hour mystery feel a whole lot breezier than you expect, there’s bound to be another who cannot separate what appears to be surface distraction from a highly convoluted tapestry of convenient twists and turns. Most will surely fall in the middle––like me.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Therapy Dogs
    Therapy Dogs is undeniably authentic, regardless of whether some sequences are staged: as each fiction unfolds we understand the emotions and futility that birthed them.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Nr. 10
    That’s the fun of it all: complete unpredictability.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    A Wounded Fawn
    While it’s not as overtly comedic as Stevens’ Jakob’s Wife, A Wounded Fawn is funny in its own way.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Blood Relatives
    Blood Relatives delivers familial drama and genre hijinks.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Huesera: The Bone Woman
    Cervera’s feature debut is an accordingly powerful depiction of motherhood’s oft-overlooked cost.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Nocebo
    Green and Fonacier are both fantastic within this evolving dynamic, their inevitable end a mutually brutal sacrifice meant to close a broken loop rather than continue some damaging cycle. Their characters are so complex that their best moments are those subtle shimmers revealing true natures beneath old façades.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Wendell & Wild
    There’s a tug-of-war between plot and characters that always seems won by the former to the latter’s detriment. If not unforgivable, it is frustrating. Thankfully, the style has a way of distracting from those shortcomings.
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    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    The Fire that Took Her
    It’s nothing short of heroic and heartbreaking and important—both because of how laws in her name are still being planned to go before the US legislature and because audiences need to remember that victims of domestic abuse deserve to be given as much benefit of the doubt as their abusers. Being an addict shouldn’t disqualify you from receiving life-saving protection.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Old Man
    The (un)reality of what’s happening beneath the surface is hardly unique or secretive, but the way Veach writes its revelations and McKee films its visual labyrinth spanning past, present, and purgatory ensure the drama unfolding is never without intrigue.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 33 Jared Mobarak
    The Other Tom
    Chavez and Rodriguez deliver authentic performances in first-time roles that shine a light on harrowing circumstances, but the script they’re beholden to won’t let us embrace them outside the construct that all professionals are irrefutably out to prey upon the less fortunate.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Sissy
    Barlow and Senes do a great job keeping things entertaining and plausible insofar as how casualties cross the path of their killers.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Sirens
    It reaches past the usual rock clichés to recognize that the struggle these women face is more immediate than striving to perform for sold-out crowds or become signed by a label. This is about surviving a chaotic environment marked by past violence while still entrenched in present-day political revolution.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Piggy
    Don’t expect to know how it’s all going to end; Pereda makes certain to save the blood for the finale.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 83 Jared Mobarak
    Vesper
    The film zooms in to project humanity’s struggle onto Vesper. With one gust of wind (and some tragic losses), health and prosperity can be hers (and ours) again.
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    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    The Swearing Jar
    To say The Swearing Jar is an uplifting film without a clarifier such as “bittersweet” is perhaps a tough sell, but that’s exactly what it is.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    The Justice of Bunny King
    It’s a delicate scenario that treats its characters with the respect and complexity they deserve.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 58 Jared Mobarak
    The Enforcer
    Iliff’s script and Hughes’ direction might not provide anything we haven’t seen before, but both allow the actors the necessary room to give us what we need to stay invested.
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    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Maya and the Wave
    What begins like a feel-good tale of one woman’s quest to be the best, Stephanie Johnes’ Maya and the Wave quickly transforms into something much bigger. More than simply attempting to rejuvenate her career after three back surgeries, anxiety disorders caused by the trauma of the accident and its public backlash, and a loss of sponsorship, Maya’s journey became a fight for equality.
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    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    To the Moon
    It’s so well-paced that the final twenty minutes hit with an urgency I wasn’t expecting.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Jared Mobarak
    Sidney
    Expect a breezy affair with good-natured laughter and low stakes. You’ll learn some things and remember others en route to watching as Poitier’s legacy is reinforced with a carefully curated mix of family and friends driven by the sole goal to immortalize their hero.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Chevalier
    A stirring tribute to a man of many talents, Chevalier gorgeously gives a once-forgotten virtuoso violinist the cinematic treatment.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jared Mobarak
    Alice, Darling
    The role of Alice is very much internal and, as such, very reliant upon putting her thoughts onscreen. That we can also see those thoughts in our own minds simply through Kendrick’s thousand-yard stares, moments of lashing out, and visibly draining anxiety is a testament to her commitment to the character and the script’s nuanced complexity to allow her to say so much without saying anything.
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