James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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For 2,525 reviews, this critic has graded:
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65% higher than the average critic
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33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6 points higher than other critics.
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James Berardinelli's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 1,802 out of 2525
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Mixed: 443 out of 2525
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Negative: 280 out of 2525
2,525
movie reviews
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James Berardinelli 38
Code 46 is like "Solaris" without the psychological depth and strong acting. The movie is flat, boring, pointless, and nonsensical. -
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James Berardinelli 38
The film is critic-proof and it will find an audience, but it's hard to imagine even the film's target demographic (teenage boys) being overly enthusiastic about the product. It's disposable entertainment of the worst kind. -
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James Berardinelli 38
The Brown Bunny is one long, self-indulgent bore topped off with a hard-core porn scene featuring Gallo and co-star Chloë Sevigny. -
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James Berardinelli 38
One has the sense that if the level of violence had been ratcheted up a little, Paparazzi might have been more of a guilty pleasure and less of a chore to watch. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Can't decide whether it wants to be a black comedy, dumb farce, or sentimental sit-com. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Stay away from Birth not because of what goes on (or doesn't) in a bathtub, but because this is not a very good movie. -
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James Berardinelli 38
National Treasure's storyline isn't compelling or coherent enough to warrant the term "plot." -
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James Berardinelli 38
Take away the film's attitude, and you're left with "Son of Van Helsing." -
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James Berardinelli 38
This remake replaces suspense with boredom and witty dialogue with lame lines any self-respecting actor should be embarrassed to utter. -
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James Berardinelli 38
A huge disappointment -- the kind of motion picture that makes you actively angry at the filmmaker for subjecting you to it and stealing two hours of your life. -
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James Berardinelli 38
The really disgusting thing about this movie isn't the crude jokes themselves, but how grossly unfunny they all are. -
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James Berardinelli 38
If there's the kernel of a good story buried somewhere deep in Cursed, it never pops. As werewolf movies go, this one is on par with "An American Werewolf in Paris," but at least that dud had plenty of gore and Julie Delpy's bare breasts to recommend it. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Offensive because it offers little more than unleavened stupidity in the place of the family-friendly action and comedy it promises. -
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James Berardinelli 38
As far as I'm concerned, it's official: Hollywood has lost the art of how to make horror films. -
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James Berardinelli 38
A shallow, transparent satire/social commentary, Palindromes lives and dies on a gimmick. -
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James Berardinelli 38
One can give Ice Cube props for attitude, but not much more. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Monster-in-Law is appalling misfire of a comedy - a motion picture that takes a situation ripe for the blackest vein of satire and reduces it to a puerile and edgeless pile of goo -
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James Berardinelli 38
Plastic characters, chaotic camerawork, lots of things blowing up, and an incredibly dumb screenplay. In short, it represents a great time at the movies for anyone who has recently undergone a frontal lobotomy. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Breakdown is the latest in a seemingly endless traffic jam of thrillers that opens strong but finishes abominably. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Dirty Deeds boasts a passably entertaining idea that is butchered in the telling. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Only for die-hard Cho fans. Everyone else will be offended, bored, or some combination of the two. -
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James Berardinelli 38
The movie starts cheating the audience early, and never lets up. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Speed 2 can be numbered among the worst second chapters ever made. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Movies like this usually have something interesting to say about the human condition, but not Nine Lives. It makes an insufferably obvious observation: we live boring lives, shit happens, and we die. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Even children, who will be enthralled by all the puppies, may have a hard time not fidgeting for protracted portions of the running time. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Unfortunately, although there are a few nasty thorns here and there, The First Wives Club is a largely uninspired (and unfunny) comedy that collapses completely in the final fifteen minutes. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Tedious and predictable, it employs obvious situations and clichés instead of genuine suspense-building elements. -
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James Berardinelli 38
From the start, it's obvious that this is a vehicle for his comedy, and it mostly works -- for about ten to fifteen minutes. After that, Carrey's act gradually grows less humorous and more tiresome, and the laughter in the audience seems forced. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Very little of what made the written version so enjoyable has been successfully translated to the screen, and what we're left with instead is an overly-long (two hours and thirty-four minutes, to be exact), pedantic thriller. -
