Jami Bernard

A droll gem that celebrates movie love with feeling and deadpan humor.

The sniper's life is a lonely one, full of shallow breathing and delayed gratification. Solitary as it is, Jude Law manages to get a little action in the bunkers of wartime Stalingrad in the ambitious but sometimes inadvertently silly Enemy at the Gates.

This winning documentary about fifth-graders who learn ballroom dancing is one of those movies that make the world a brighter place.

Each man winds up owing the other -- and the enormity of the sacrifices they make on one another's behalf are quite moving and have not been duplicated in the movies since.

If there is any justice in the world, Farnsworth will be remembered at Oscar time.

The darkest, most thrilling entry yet in the movie franchise.

A beautifully rich performance by Meryl Streep, [18 September 1998, p. 57]

As strong on action as it is weak on the interpersonal stuff. If Bond can get a new car for each episode, how about some new pickup lines?

Makes hoops look like the sexiest game in town.

"Chocolat" was just a warmup for the stunning display of the male form against National Geographic settings in her new Beau Travail.

The inexplicably terrifying ending is good for a month's worth of nightmares -- no small thing for a movie in such a saturated field.

Gives moviegoers a funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire.

Bernie Mac gives surprising wisdom and heart - along with the laughs - to what could have been just another generic baseball comedy.

Linklater's ravishing new movie represents a bold leap into the possibilities of technology.

In this cross between film noir and melodrama, there's lust, need, camp and betrayal.

It's not just a movie about an underdog who fights the odds, it's about following one's heart -- despite the obstacles.

The performance of the movie is Liev Schreiber as Shaw, a man howlingly uncomfortable in his own skin.

The plot is intricate and tight. The preamble is a bit challenging to sort out. But the movie's engine is the relationships and the characters' inner lives, all of it boiling with emotional intensity.

Clever, buoyant and surprisingly human.

The feel-good movie of the summer. And the song this pimp works up, about how hard it is to manage a stable of ho's, is catchy and moving.

Once Were Warriors has more to say than the traditional TV-movie about spousal abuse. But some viewers will have to pay a price: This is a movie that requires strength and fortitude to sit through.

No matter which floor you're on, the huge cast is extraordinary, and Altman gives the actors free rein to bring their characters to life despite such close quarters.

A sublimely uplifting movie.

A brilliant if slow-paced movie about one man's unwitting journey into adulthood.

A pitch-perfect gem.

Noir has never been this bright.

A great divorce movie. It's also one of the canniest comedies ever made about a certain kind of literary pretension.

Life-affirming story of love, kinship and sacrifice.