Jami Bernard

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New York Daily News
For 1,050 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jami Bernard's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Don't Look Now
Lowest review score: 0 Whipped
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 631 out of 1050
  2. Mixed: 249 out of 1050
  3. Negative: 170 out of 1050
1050 movie reviews
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    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Spy Kids
    An adorable family movie.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    All the Real Girls
    The central relationship here is curious but not engaging, except for the pleasure of watching Deschanel, making All the Real Girls just a filmmaker's exercise in impressionistic style and mood.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Time of the Wolf
    Time of the Wolf is grounded so deeply in the reality of society gone awry that the anxiety faced by Isabelle Huppert's character as she struggles to keep her family together transfers onto the audience and never leaves.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    Open Water
    The actors are unknowns, but Ryan does a lot with her little downturned mouth. There are as many shades of anxiety as there are shades of blue in the sea, and Ryan manages to find them all.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    Intimate Strangers
    This has all the ingredients for a top-notch thriller except one - a thrill.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 38 Jami Bernard
    The Tracker
    An underwritten drama.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Good Will Hunting
    You'd never guess this just-off-center movie was directed by indie hero Gus Van Sant. Maybe, like Will, he's casual about his gifts and feels no need to trot them out.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Red Eye
    The movie is fun, fun, fun.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Travelers and Magicians
    Shangri-La is in your own backyard.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Opportunists
    Enjoyable, intelligent little heist movie.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Me & Isaac Newton
    Hey, kids! Skip the job fairs and go directly to a screening of Me & Isaac Newton.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Real Women Have Curves
    Any woman who wears more than a size 12 -- and that would be the majority of adult females in the United States -- will get buckets of self-esteem from Real Women Have Curves.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    This winning documentary about fifth-graders who learn ballroom dancing is one of those movies that make the world a brighter place.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Mansfield Park
    O'Connor plays Fanny with an appealingly direct, unflinching gaze.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Pleasantville
    Giddily inventive.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Separate Lies
    A neat, twisty little domestic drama about smart people, foolish choices.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Carnage
    An amazingly self-assured movie, it percolates with themes and ideas, all held together by the gift of the bull's parts.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Shadow of the Vampire
    Works on several playful levels. Most obviously, it is a horror movie in which life imitates art on a movie set.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    House of Sand and Fog
    It's a sad, rich story, full of misunderstandings, bad bargains, odd parallels.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    The results are impressive. Maybe, as the U.S. falls abysmally behind other nations in the sciences, it will get kids interested in that field again.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Crazy as Hell
    Hell is sitting through a movie in which you have no respect for the protagonist and the "surprise" ending is as clearly lit as the exit sign.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Training Day
    The movie raises questions that are on plenty of minds right now, including whether and how much the rules should be bent to wage a war (in this case, on drugs) that cannot be won conventionally.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Tape
    An entertaining, post-modern mulling of the nature of truth, and whether truth is ever so fixed that it can be captured on tape.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Rain
    Movies about the dawning of female sexuality and its links to mother-daughter competition are tough to pull off, but Rain is a splendid example of how to get it right.
    • New York Daily News
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Boys of Baraka
    The results are amazing, though bittersweet, and demonstrate how complicated and expensive it is (though not impossible) to break the cycle of poverty, crime and lack of education.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    Mrs Henderson Presents
    This genteel confection skews toward older audiences - those who go for "Calendar Girls," "Ladies in Lavender" and "Mrs. Brown."
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Tao of Steve
    Outside of the leads, the acting is uneven, but The Tao of Steve has an unquenchable playful spirit.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Others
    The suspense is as tingly as jalapenos on the tongue.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Barbarian Invasions
    A deeply felt celebration of the life force, as embodied in Girard's fierce performance as a man who may not have done all he could, but had an enviably great time on the way.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    The Ghost and the Darkness
    The movie mostly sustains its excitement of the hunt. But the real star is the panoramic, beautifully composed cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond. Whether he truly loved the African locations or is cursed with "a gift" doesn't matter; the dynamics of the story often flag, but the visuals lend a palpable excitement. [11 Oct 1996, p.49]
    • New York Daily News
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