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
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    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Grazia's Island
    A beautifully composed tone poem about unspoken group dynamics in an isolated community. It is also, in its way, about how love endures.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Opportunists
    Enjoyable, intelligent little heist movie.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Blue Crush
    Fun and frivolous, packed wave to wave with gorgeous young creatures reveling in their physical prowess.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    The movie may be set in prewar Japan, but it's pure 1940s Hollywood. There's costume, pageantry, melodrama, the feeling of a sweeping epic without the bother of too much accuracy, equal doses of heartbreak and uplift.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    American Psycho
    The real highlight is when Bateman and his co-workers compare custom business cards in a grueling, ego-shattering game of one-upmanship that is so linked to their sense of self it might as well be Russian roulette.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Born Romantic
    Director David Kane handles the sprawling cast with aplomb as his characters learn some new steps in this life-and love-affirming movie.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Notorious C.H.O.
    Cho is funnier — and raunchier — in this, her second concert film, than in 2000's "I'm the One That I Want," even if she doesn't break any new comedic ground.
    • New York Daily News
    • 22 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Ladies Man
    A guilty pleasure, right up there with "The Water Boy."
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    So Close
    A brilliant example of the genre -- with romantic subplots to boot.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    House of Sand and Fog
    It's a sad, rich story, full of misunderstandings, bad bargains, odd parallels.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Perfect Storm
    Petersen's speculative reenactment makes for gripping summer entertainment -- if you don't mind a little corn floating in your brine.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Judy Berlin
    Its leisurely pace and surreal poetry won't break box-office records, but will surely serve to introduce Mendelsohn as a major new talent.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    In Good Company
    An amusing and unusually compassionate look at today's corporate culture.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Saving Face
    A worthy addition to what must take up a whole section of the video store - the heartwarming comedy that reaffirms the power of personal choice, while also promising to love and to cherish even the most hidebound cultures.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Matt Damon's performance isn't bad, but it pales in comparison with Law's.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Devil's Backbone
    Along with "The Others," -- represents a welcome diversion from loud, senseless Hollywood extravaganzas.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the 1979 Revolution
    A no-frills, homespun documentary that gives so much more than its humble technical credits would suggest.
    • 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.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    What Women Want
    A merry romantic comedy in the screwball tradition.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Le bossu
    It revives an innocently pleasurable genre - shades of Burt Lancaster and Errol Flynn - that combines lusty adventure, humor, the great outdoors and satisfying storytelling without having to concoct it in a special-effects lab.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Santa vs. the Snowman
    Santa Claus and the Snowman stage a scaled-down "Star Wars"-type battle for the rights to Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve in the pleasantly goofy, irreverent Santa vs. the Snowman.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Human Resources
    The result is an undeniable and effective authenticity.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Dreaming of Joseph Lees
    Most of the movie's rewards are in watching Morton.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Anna and the King
    If you're seeking transcendent love this season, skip the morose "End of the Affair" and go with Anna and the King.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Outside Providence
    It stands apart when it comes to its extravagant humor and non-judgmental '70s-era reality (smoking dope, hitching rides, playing Frisbee, hanging out).
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Hell House
    Scary, all right, but not for the reasons the Dallas church had in mind.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch
    Busch lovingly and meticulously channels such grand dames as Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck and Norma Shearer in a way that surpasses imitation, camp and drag show. He captures their essence, and therefore the essence of cinema itself.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Mission: Impossible III
    The supporting cast, including Ving Rhames, Laurence Fishburne and gorgeous Maggie Q, is underused, but the movie delivers the goods.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Stoked supplies a unique perspective on the hazards of rock-star fame that went with the sport's explosion for a band of rebels who didn't see it coming -- or going.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Company
    Knowing that the director is Robert Altman gives you a good idea of what to expect: a demimonde of locker-room chatter, catty sniping, backstage politics, high art and low self-esteem. Altman constructs the movie with the same cross-currents of his other ensemble movies.
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