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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    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    Man on the Train
    One of the small pleasures of the movie is likely to escape American audiences. The bank robber is played by Johnny Hallyday, a pop icon of great magnitude in France, and the old man is played by Jean Rochefort, an acting staple of that country's cinema. The mere juxtaposition of these two personalities forms a comic set of expectations.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Tumbleweeds
    What keeps these mother-daughter tumbleweeds from drifting right out of consciousness is the unique rapport between the actresses.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Infernal Affairs
    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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Elizabeth
    A fascinating whirl of politics and palace intrigue.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Lady Vengeance
    Less bloody than its predecessors, Lady Vengeance wraps up with a killer (literally) finale that calls into question the killer instinct. It's one of the reasons Park's brutal films are so emotionally rewarding.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    The best part of Zatoichi is its fine sense of rhythm, culminating in a galvanizing clog-dance finish.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Shrek 2
    Shrek 2 delivers more fun than there is slime in a green ogre's swamp. Much of that is thanks to Antonio ­Banderas, who runs away with Shrek 2 on little cat feet.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Ju-on: The Grudge
    Its shapelessness and the cultural differences in acting style will keep this version filed under "cult oddity."
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    The Kid Stays in the Picture
    The best part is during the closing credits. Dustin Hoffman does a brilliant, dead-on impression of Evans that captures the essence of the man more than all the self-serving grandiosity that preceded it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Startup.com
    Some of the simplest shots give you the full picture of the price these guys paid for their dreams.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Harry Is Here to Help
    Moll clearly has looked to Hitchcock and Clouzot for inspiration. There are sexual undercurrents between characters, psychological quirks and a murky veneer like the surface of the pool in "Diabolique."
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Full Monty
    Simple, joyful and downright innocent movie.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Kitchen Stories
    Features an absurdist sensibility that ultimately melts your heart. It's certainly one of the stranger movies you'll see.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Catch Me If You Can
    A pleasant romp through the land of Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Secret Ballot
    Yet another film from Iran that has the leisurely pace, sly humor and incontrovertible wisdom of a Sufi parable.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    The Believer
    Gosling's performance is a stunner, although the story-telling is otherwise pedestrian. It is the movie's blessing and curse that it does not shy away from Danny's murderous, inexplicable contradictions — or explain them.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    About a Boy
    A comedy hit, but its secret is that it delves deeper than the usual summer fare.
    • New York Daily News
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Uses social and historical perspective to explain what happened then and, perhaps inadvertently, what's happening now.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Solas
    A simple story that resonates deeply, largely thanks to the actors' ability to invest it with inner life.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Monster
    Any which way you describe this uncompromising movie, it will never sound palatable. Still, it features one of the most spectacular physical transformations by an actress hungry for a meaty role. I haven't used the term "tour de force" in all of 2003, but now it is time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Lady and the Duke
    The result is a galvanizing mix of intellectual discourse and guillotined heads.
    • New York Daily News
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Shakespeare Behind Bars
    The mere fact that Shakespeare can teach hardened criminals to search their souls gives hope that forgiveness and redemption are possible.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    The Grey Zone
    It's an intelligent, chilling movie, but one that can't quite shake those stage origins.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    The Sea Inside
    Based on a true story, the movie has abundant humor and uplift - but it's a heartbreaker of extraordinary dimension.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Others
    The suspense is as tingly as jalapenos on the tongue.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    The segments are introduced with little clichés or homilies, like "Ignorance Is Bliss," but the fierce intelligence of the script reminds us that sometimes a cliché is the only way to express the ineffable.
    • New York Daily News
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Duck Season
    It's about the kind of kids who could never sit still enough, unfortunately, for a movie that perfectly captures the frustrations, longings, obsessions and torments of the awkward years before manhood.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    End of the Century
    A thorough, gutsy and appropriately scuzzy-looking documentary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
    Film makers Barak Goodman and Daniel Anker dig deep into the story and its ramifications, exposing how the twin evils of racism and anti-Semitism combined to foment institutional injustice, and led — if a silver lining could be found — to the triumphs of the civil-rights movement two and three decades later.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Joe Gould's Secret
    Holm is dazzling as the grubby little misfit, just a little brilliant and a little insane.
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