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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    • 53 Metascore
    • 88 Jami Bernard
    Enemy at the Gates
    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.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    Nanny McPhee
    There's magic afoot, even if the movie is more serviceable than magical.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Sabrina
    The cinematic equivalent of comfort food it soothed when you were younger and, in its familiarity, it soothes again.
    • New York Daily News
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Bully
    That the actors can work under such scrutiny is amazing, and they are superb. The standout is Brad Renfro as Marty, the kid most under the thumb of the neighborhood bully.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Amy's Orgasm
    There's definitely room for a female Woody Allen, an accolade garnered by a previous film. However, Amy's Orgasm is chirpy, shrill and coarse, more in the vein of one of Allen's more depressed periods.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Adaptation.
    Streep is perfect, as per usual, but the showy orchid role goes to Cage in an Oscar-worthy tour de force. He pours his body into Charlie's slumped frame of mind and creates a character churning with endearing contradictions -- the unforgettable nebbish.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Last Days
    It's like a walking tour inside the head of a deeply troubled, deeply talented young man, where most of the systems have already shut down.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    Green Street Hooligans
    Wood is compelling, but Charlie Hunnam ("Nicholas Nickleby") is the one to watch.
    • 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.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Drowning Mona
    Excuse me, but didn't Bette Midler already play this role?
    • 76 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    Japan
    Tough going for most audiences and should be considered more of a rough draft full of lofty ideas unevenly executed.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The King Is Alive
    It's an excellent fusion of subject and style.
    • New York Daily News
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    Up and Down
    The screenplay is chock-full of political and social observation tarnished by uneven ­acting and editing. The clumsy humor doesn't translate well.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    The Boys of Baraka
    The results are amazing, though bittersweet, and demonstrate how complicated and expensive it is (though not impossible) to break the cycle of poverty, crime and lack of education.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Jami Bernard
    The Golden Bowl
    Nolte, at least, delivers his lines with laser accuracy, and gives The Golden Bowl the life that so much cogitation could have drained from it.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Jami Bernard
    She's the One
    The comparison to Woody Allen is obvious, not only in the New York setting and the characters' comic approach-avoidance to sex, but in Burns' casting of his real girlfriend to play his screen girlfriend. Uh, Eddie big mistake there. [23 Aug 1996, p.41]
    • New York Daily News
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Brotherhood of the Wolf
    An eye-pleasing French action-slasher film that is cheerfully unencumbered by the usual conventions of stuffy costume drama.
    • New York Daily News
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Jami Bernard
    Shrek
    An adorable, infectious work of true sophistication.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Jami Bernard
    Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    Paying homage to Sergio Leone, "Mexico" aims too high and, in the process, becomes more like every generic, overplotted drug-cartel-and-revenge flick out there.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Jami Bernard
    Red Eye
    The movie is fun, fun, fun.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Underclassman
    A remedial comedy for idiots.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Jami Bernard
    Tears of the Sun
    A preposterous action movie in which a Navy SEAL makes the world safe for democracy one continent at a time.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Jami Bernard
    Garfield
    Thanks to that dog-torture element, Garfield may be too upsetting for younger kids. Meanwhile, older kids (let alone parents) will want to put this movie behind them like yesterday's hairball.
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