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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    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Once Were Warriors
    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.
    • 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.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Shine
    A sublimely uplifting movie.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    The Mexican
    Flails about desperately for a genre to call home.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Popcorn-buyers, beware: This is no "Shrek," with raucous adult humor sailing over the heads of wee ones. This is "Sesame Street"-level, with white hats, black hats and simple moral messages.
    • New York Daily News
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    A slight movie and a major downer, is an acting showcase for Sean Penn. That's good, but not enough.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    The Wind Will Carry Us
    A brilliant if slow-paced movie about one man's unwitting journey into adulthood.
    • New York Daily News
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Vampires
    It's just as well that John Carpenter makes horror movies, because here's a horrifying thought picture James Woods as an action hero. [30 October 1998, p. 44]
    • New York Daily News
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    The House of Mirth
    The stop-the-presses news from The House of Mirth is the number of fine performances from people you never knew had it in them.
    • 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.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    American Beauty
    A tart, funny and tremendously sobering movie about the deepest recesses of personal unhappiness.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    In the Realms of the Unreal
    Even without much in the way of hard facts, Yu makes intuitive leaps, using animated segments to bring to life Darger's work, and therefore the man - or as much of him as it is possible to fathom.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    What Short does not deserve - and neither do we - is a feature-length movie about Jiminy.
    • 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.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Kissing Jessica Stein
    A pitch-perfect gem.
    • New York Daily News
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Bubble Boy
    The bubble-boy niche is thankfully small. John Travolta began his career playing one in a TV movie, but this movie will undoubtedly finish off the genre for good.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    Van Helsing
    Old monster movies were thrilling in a way that mingled terror, sexuality and a real preference for the monsters over their tormentors. Van Helsing is a kiddie adventure on an endless, meaningless loop.
    • 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.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    50 First Dates
    A terrible movie by all reasonable standards -- yet it leaves a sweet taste.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    The Low Down
    Here’s a British spin on the familiar struggle of the couch potato who plans any minute now to get off his duff.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Grand passion, secrecy, world politics and mortal danger provide a heady mix for this spectacularly beautiful movie. If only the accents were as reliable as the azure of the sea.
    • 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    Mousehunt
    Aa bit too familiar an American tail. [19 December 1997, p. 82]
    • New York Daily News
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    The Replacements
    You might want to sit out this season.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    Flubber
    Children may get a kick out of Flubber's lowest-common-denominator antics. They may not recognize that Williams' prodigious talent has been reduced to something sub-blobular. [26Nov1997 Pg 38]
    • New York Daily News
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    The Hurricane
    Washington can bank on an Oscar nomination for the most forceful work of his career.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    How I Killed My Father
    The acting is superb, with emotions roiling beneath rigid exteriors.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    Marion Bridge
    This Canadian film is extraordinarily low-key, considering the explosive secrets the sisters unearth, but that is part of its strength.
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