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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Letting any other actor run wild like this could have been a disaster, but Depp's peculiar buccaneer is an instant classic of actorly charisma.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Transamerica
    This drama offers a chuckle at every turn.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Mother
    Turns out to be a thoughtful, beautifully acted story about feeling alive before it's too late to feel anything.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Hero
    As gorgeous and contemplative as it is, Hero is a genre picture and needs to deliver the action goods. To that end, there are plenty of clever, lovingly choreographed sequences.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    It's a fanciful tale, but the message is sweet - that the higher arts speak a universal language that transcends politics and ignorance.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Blackboards
    Director Samira Makhmalbaf made this raw and effective parable with the recognizable help of her father, legendary director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Matrix Reloaded
    The philosophy is even less plausible. But the action -- oh, the action! There's nothing else out there like it.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Corporation
    An informative, amusing and unnerving overview of the history and consequences of corporations.
    • 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.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Word Wars
    Amusing and slightly alarming documentary.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Girlfight
    Uplifting and moving in a traditional Hollywood way, while also seeming as raw and unfiltered as cinema vérité.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    Vardalos is a breath of fresh air. After all the little nipped and tucked bunnies we've been seeing onscreen for so long, we forget what real women look like.
    • New York Daily News
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Lola
    Jacques Demy showed up with the lightest touch with his 1960 Lola, a movie that has been called a musical without music.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Yes Men
    A sobering documentary done in a whimsical style.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Here, Noyce lets his camera, the geography and the youngsters tell this exceptionally powerful story.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Prince of Egypt
    Apt to scare kids. [18 December 1998, p.72]
    • New York Daily News
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    102 Dalmatians
    The floating, flailing, flying puppies in the inspired opening credits of 102 Dalmatians set the tone for an adorable sequel to the live-action version of the famously spotted cartoon.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Separate Lies
    A neat, twisty little domestic drama about smart people, foolish choices.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Taboo
    Impressionistic and open to interpretation, which is a kind way of saying that there's no way to figure out the ending.
    • New York Daily News
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Ice Age: The Meltdown
    A good-natured, gag-filled sequel.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Band of Outsiders
    The strangely mesmerizing dance contest in "Pulp Fiction" was born of Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 New Wave classic Band of Outsiders.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Domestic Violence
    Wiseman's film is revealing. But it is also a silent rebuke to a society that tries to hide this pervasive problem behind a smug vision of itself.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Out of Time
    The tension of Matt having to work alongside his wife without being able to trust her provides the movie's real electricity, sexual and otherwise.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Up at the Villa
    All of Haas' movies have an air of weirdness and dread, and this one is no exception. But it's romantic as well.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Wonder Boys
    Among the movie's oddball treats are Robert Downey Jr. as Grady's flamboyant editor and Rip Torn as a pedantic author and sermonizer known only as Q.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Austin Powers in Goldmember
    The best way to look at this installment, however, is as musical theater of the absurd. The song-and-dance set pieces are brilliant, including a rap-style "It's a Hard Knock Life" in a prison.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    How I Killed My Father
    The acting is superb, with emotions roiling beneath rigid exteriors.
    • 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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    A gentle comic stew of monster movies, adding dashes of Bugs Bunny irreverence and British gentility.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Demonlover
    Sharp, erotic performances are the mainstay of Olivier Assayas' unnerving Demonlover, a visually stylish movie that equates and fuses high-stakes corporate negotiations with the video-game mentality.
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