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 6.1 points higher than other critics.
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James Berardinelli's Scores
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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
The movie has little to recommend it and more than a few things to encourage those who pursue quality cinema to stay away. -
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James Berardinelli 38
The breath of fresh air, to the extent that one can be identified in the staleness of this recycled refuse, is John Cleese. -
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James Berardinelli 38
If all you're looking for is breasts, blood, and gore, this film hits pay dirt. None of the killings are terribly inventive, but they are plentiful, and why bother being devious when axes, machetes, knives, and pointed sticks will do the job just as well? -
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James Berardinelli 38
Of course, the problem with Angels & Demons is that to get to the final 40 minutes, it's necessary to endure the first 90, and that would be defined as cruel and unusual punishment. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Echelon Conspiracy is a more evocative title than a movie this stupid deserves. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Boring and uninspired, this movie gives ghost stories a bad name. -
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James Berardinelli 38
I found the most extreme material to be so tasteless that it voided all comedy. -
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James Berardinelli 38
A turd of T-Rex proportions, Land of the Lost makes one remember last summer's "Speed Racer" fondly. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Sluggish. Torpid. Boring. Those three words (and more) can describe The Yellow Handkerchief, a stultifying road trip movie whose inept screenplay is only partially counterbalanced by a trio of nice performances. -
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James Berardinelli 38
The only worthwhile portion of Twin Dragons is the climactic action sequence, but, to get to that, it's necessary to endure more than an hour of unfunny physical comedy and excruciating verbal interaction. -
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James Berardinelli 38
It's the kind of thing that Shakespeare might have written if he had undergone a frontal lobotomy. -
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James Berardinelli 38
A colossal disappointment. Not because it's superficial and shallow –- those characteristics pretty much go with the territory –- but because it's boring. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Schumacher doesn't leave an imprint on the film -- it could be the work of any second-rate director. -
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James Berardinelli 38
This isn't just typical, unchallenging Hollywood drek -- it's typical, unchallenging Hollywood drek made by people who don't care, for people who don't care. -
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James Berardinelli 38
A Perfect Murder has inexplicably managed to eliminate almost everything that was worthwhile about "Dial M for Murder," leaving behind the nearly-unwatchable wreckage of a would-be '90s thriller. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Delpy's injection of class into an otherwise classless production raises the specter of what this film could have been with a better script and a better cast surrounding her. -
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James Berardinelli 38
With the flat characters and lifeless performances, it's a wonder that anyone in the audience can stay awake all the way through this dull and dreary production. -
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James Berardinelli 38
A soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for NBA properties. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Wild Wild West isn't just a bad adaptation of a TV series; it's a bad film. -
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James Berardinelli 38
For those looking for something positive, this is the only movie I can recall that features music from both ABBA ("Does Your Mother Know") and Handel ("Zadok the Priest"). Let's hear it for musical diversity! -
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James Berardinelli 38
One could easily argue that, like many Ed Wood-type bad movies, The Faculty might be headed for the cult classic shelf in the video store. Unfortunately, it's not campy enough, and, worse, it seems to think it's being hip when it's just being dumb. -
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James Berardinelli 38
This is the kind of tearjerker that will cause audience members to cry, but only because they paid hard-earned money to see it. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Nothing short of a disaster -– easily one of the worst movies of the year. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Unfortunately for the poor viewer trapped into sitting through this 95 minute mess, the humor is both conventional and unfunny, the script never takes any chances, and the ending is a cop-out. -
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James Berardinelli 38
This is film noir for the MTV generation: fast-paced, slick, flashy, gleefully mindless, and hollow to the core. -
