James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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For 2,526 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 5.9 points higher than other critics.
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James Berardinelli's Scores
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Positive: 1,803 out of 2526
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Mixed: 443 out of 2526
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Negative: 280 out of 2526
2,526
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James Berardinelli 38
A muddle of a film - an overlong bore that either mistakenly thinks it's something more than a humdrum romance or has incorporated a variety of pretentions as window-dressing. -
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James Berardinelli 38
For all of its existential posturing, Being Human ends up being a rather shallow motion picture. -
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James Berardinelli 38
This unexceptional and uninteresting story of a self-pitying borderline-personality teenager verges on being unwatchable as a result of McDonald's decision to bombard the audience with extraneous images in lieu of telling the story. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Clumsily incorporates elements of "Ghost," "The Sixth Sense," and "Field of Dreams." -
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James Berardinelli 38
Devil will do little to dispel the growing belief that Shyamalan is a one-trick pony whose horse has keeled over. The laughter during the trailer was sadly prescient; the film is a joke. -
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James Berardinelli 38
Cloying and at times annoying, Life as We Know It is egregiously manipulative, whoring itself out for a few unearned tears. -
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James Berardinelli 38
This movie works best as a sleep tonic. Somewhere isn't just frustratingly slow-moving; it's inert.- Posted Dec 22, 2010
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James Berardinelli 38
The only arena in which Gulliver's Travels plays an adequate game is in visual effects.- Posted Dec 23, 2010
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James Berardinelli 38
The recycling goes as deep as the dialogue, which is a mangled and blended refrain of clichés.- Posted Feb 21, 2011
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James Berardinelli 38
This movie isn't bad in the way some incompetently made movies are bad; this is bad because there's much skill evident in a pointless endeavor.- Posted Mar 27, 2011
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James Berardinelli 38
Season of the Witch teeters on the edge of slipping into the "so bad it's good" camp, but ultimately ends up being merely bad.- Posted Jan 10, 2011
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James Berardinelli 38
LaBeouf, who appeared to hit a low in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," has sunk to greater levels of incompetence here.- Posted Jun 28, 2011
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James Berardinelli 38
The 2011 version of Conan the Barbarian looks cheap and feels rushed. The few good elements are dwarfed by a generic, nonsensical plot and shoddy storytelling.- Posted Aug 19, 2011
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James Berardinelli 38
Trespass is a home invasion movie, but not a clever, taut one; it's sloppy and obvious, with curves so un-serpentine they might as well be straightaways.- Posted Oct 16, 2011
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James Berardinelli 38
The only reason any male could have for seeing The Vow is the hope of getting laid afterwards. The only reason any female could have for seeing The Vow is if she views the plots of Harlequin romance novels as the height of modern storytelling.- Posted Feb 9, 2012
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James Berardinelli 38
Lockout is painful. Not painful in the way Uwe Boll or "Sex and the City" movies are painful. But painful enough that I kept waiting for Nicolas Cage to show up. Or Katherine Heigl. Or, god forbid, both.- Posted Apr 12, 2012
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James Berardinelli 38
Battleship has the IQ of a rutabaga and doesn't require much more intelligence than that to watch. Despite spending copious amounts of time with back story and so-called character development, it's really all about the explosions.- Posted May 17, 2012
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James Berardinelli 38
Those who don't understand what it means for an actor to "sleepwalk" through a performance need only watch Men in Black III; there's no shortage of examples.- Posted May 24, 2012
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James Berardinelli 38
A preposterous thriller where the only thing more disappointing than the ending is the 93 minutes it takes to get there.- Posted Sep 8, 2012
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James Berardinelli 38
Everything in G.I. Joe: Retaliation is perfunctory - technically proficient but soulless. It's not exciting. It's boring.- Posted Mar 27, 2013
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James Berardinelli 38
To work, The Host would have required a visionary interpretation rather than the mundane telling that Niccol opts for.- Posted Mar 29, 2013
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James Berardinelli 38
It's tired and dated with too few laughs to justify the stultifying attempts at drama and the impossible-to-swallow plot contortions.- Posted Apr 26, 2013
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James Berardinelli 38
The Watch is a studio turd marinated in eau de skunk that stinks worse than week-old fish.- Posted Jul 26, 2012
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James Berardinelli 38
It's either a failed experiment or a movie that was rushed through production so Allen could fulfill his one project-per-year commitment.- Posted Jul 7, 2012
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James Berardinelli 38
Labeling The Call as "relentlessly dumb" would be an overestimation of its intelligence. This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.- Posted Mar 15, 2013
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James Berardinelli 25
--- Ho, ho, ho - the joke's on anyone who pays to see this. -
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James Berardinelli 25
Jennifer's Body mixes, matches, and crosses three popular genres: horror, comedy, and teen angst. Unfortunately, it fails at all of them - and "fails" might be too kind a term. -
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James Berardinelli 25
White Noise has nothing. You'll have a better time staying home, tuning your TV to a station that doesn't carry a local signal, and staring. -
