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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    • 99 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Army of Shadows
    It's a white-knuckler all the way, with most of that tension coming from the smallest facial expressions exchanged in uneasy silence between compatriots who knew what they were getting into, but were nevertheless unprepared for the moral and emotional fallout of their patriotic actions.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Seven Samurai
    It's impossible to imagine how the action genre would have developed without Akira Kurosawa's watershed 1954 movie Seven Samurai.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Pépé le Moko (re-release)
    The movie elevated the basic gangster picture into what became known as the niche genre of poetic realism. And, aside from Garbo, never have key lights on a star's face caused so much swooning among fans.
    • 98 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Metropolis (re-release)
    It took the German restorers four years to ready this print using dupe negatives and old prints found in archives around the world. Their work speaks for itself. Each frame of this classic is drop-dead stunning, the more so now that the movie no longer hiccups its way across the screen.
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Don't Look Now
    The movie is set in a gloriously creepy and crumbling Venice. It's the off-season, and every deserted canal and alleyway reeks of bad vibes. Roeg plays masterfully with this menacing atmosphere, jangling the nerves with quick cuts and quixotic possibilities. [16 Oct 1998, p.72]
    • New York Daily News
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for.
    • 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.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Hollywood Ending
    A bouquet of snappy one-liners and disarming nuttiness.
    • New York Daily News
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
    Spielberg's direction and Melissa Mathison's script never lose sight of the realistic, low center of gravity world of childhood, in which such marvelous adventures happen every day that an alien knocking around the garage is not really such an unusual occurrence. [2002 re-release]
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Baran
    Yet another deceptively simple, supremely moving film from Iran.
    • New York Daily News
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Moolaadé
    It's a deceptively simple tale that tackles, serenely and with surprising humor, issues of gender, power, custom and change.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    L.A. Confidential
    A juicy noir stew of amorality that's the best thing since "Chinatown."
    • 91 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    The Triplets of Belleville
    An insanely delicious animated feature.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Beau Travail
    "Chocolat" was just a warmup for the stunning display of the male form against National Geographic settings in her new Beau Travail.
    • New York Daily News
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Gosford Park
    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.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Finding Nemo
    This stirring children's movie about separation anxiety is swimming with comic references only adults will catch, thus greatly expanding the potential audience.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Being John Malkovich
    Gloriously inventive, delightfully nutty comic treasure is unlike anything you've ever seen. It's lunatic.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    The Incredibles
    Clever, buoyant and surprisingly human.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    The Truman Show
    A sunny-looking movie about the darkest paranoia.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Capturing the Friedmans
    This extraordinary film refracts truth through the prism of memory, until what you get is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, full of sacrifice and betrayal.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    The Best of Youth
    After all the observations on heartache, politics, art, commerce, passion, identity, mortality, even mental health, six hours begin to seem downright compact.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    House of Flying Daggers
    The most gorgeous movie of the year. This smashing martial-arts romance from Chinese director Zhang Yimou is stunning in other ways, too, like the eroticism that ripples just beneath the surface.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Waking the Dead
    It's a romantic weepie.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Y Tu Mamá También
    Like watching an American teen-sex comedy through a glass darkly.
    • New York Daily News
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Funny Girl
    You can reexperience the humor and magic -- and the essence of Streisand -- in this William Wyler classic.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    The Lion King
    Pure, eye-popping pleasure.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Toy Story 2
    With its agile, clever script and winning characters, Toy Story 2 is that rare thing -- an excellent children's movie with no upper age limit.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Nobody Knows
    Excellent, troubling social commentary based on a true story.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    L'Enfant (The Child)
    Powerfully uplifting precisely because it's so horrifying.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Shine
    A sublimely uplifting movie.
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