James Berardinelli, ReelViews
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For 2,546 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 65% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

James Berardinelli's Scores

  • Movies
Average review score: 65
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2,546 movie reviews
    • Metascore: 30
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Maybe approaching The Unborn as horror is the wrong approach. Perhaps this should be seen as a comedy. It is quite possibly the most egregiously laughable high-profile supernatural tale since Roman Polanski and Johnny Depp impaled themselves on "The Ninth Gate."
    • Metascore: 38
    • James Berardinelli 25
    It has been a long time since I came as close to walking out of a movie as I did with Confessions of a Shopaholic. Not only did I find this production to be irritating, unfunny, and lacking in entertainment value, but I found its underlying slavishness to a culture of consumption to be morally repugnant.
    • Metascore: 31
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Regardless of how low your expectations are regarding Fired Up!, it will still surprise you, and not in a good way.
    • Metascore: 38
    • James Berardinelli 25
    12 Rounds is the unholy stepchild of "Die Hard with a Vengeance" and "Speed," starring a man whose lack of range makes Steven Seagal seem nuanced by comparison.
    • Metascore: 54
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Watching Imagine That, I was beset by a feeling of intense depression. Is this what Eddie Murphy has become?
    • Metascore: 22
    • James Berardinelli 25
    If there's anything to like about The Bounty Hunter, it's Christine Baranski doing a Joan Rivers impersonation.
    • Metascore: 19
    • James Berardinelli 25
    95 minutes of unrelieved tedium.
    • Metascore: 14
    • James Berardinelli 25
    The most depressing thing about this movie is not that it's such a complete waste of time, but that there are people in Hollywood who think this kind of thing is what American movie-goers are interested in seeing.
    • Metascore: 36
    • James Berardinelli 25
    A lame collection of dumber-than-dumb gags, the quality of Big Fat Liar is on par with that of the worst television sit-com gorged to four times its normal size.
    • Metascore: 21
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Fox should be paying potential viewers not to walk out of this turkey. The plot has all the depth and originality of a video game without the fun of the interactivity.
    • Metascore: 43
    • James Berardinelli 25
    The worst action movie of the summer. I liked Bad Boys II a little less, but making the comparison is like distinguishing between a cow turd and a horse turd. And that pretty much sums it up nicely.
    • Metascore: 31
    • James Berardinelli 25
    There's just one problem: it's not scary and it's not funny...Idle Hands transcends that mundane level of badness into the realm of gross ineptitude.
    • Metascore: 27
    • James Berardinelli 25
    In a way, it's probably unfair to blame director Tamra Davis exclusively for this debacle. After all, she's toiling in the shadow of a would-be multi-media superstar, making her essentially a hired gun.
    • Metascore: 36
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Disney has struck once again, taking a passably entertaining cartoon and turning it into a motion picture so lifeless that it's almost unwatchable.
    • Metascore: 18
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Defined by three characteristics. It is as stupid as a decapitated worm. It is as irritating as a mosquito buzzing around one's head. And it is as funny as "Schindler's List."
    • Metascore: 33
    • James Berardinelli 25
    A bunch of IQ-challenged characters traipsing through a laughably bad scenario brought to life using silly dialogue, banal direction, and questionable special effects.
    • Metascore: 47
    • James Berardinelli 25
    It is a cinematic abomination -- a source of embarrassment for everyone involved.
    • Metascore: 27
    • James Berardinelli 25
    If ever a romantic comedy is going to fail at the box office, this is it. The movie isn't a guy's thing, a girl's thing, or anybody else's thing.
    • Metascore: 47
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Devoid of life, intelligence, humor, and anything else that could entertain even the most undemanding viewer, this film is a perfect example of something that should have been shipped to landfills, not multiplexes.
    • Metascore: 25
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Too much of Jason X plays it straight, and that means boredom. Murder and mayhem of this sort quickly becomes monotonous.
    • Metascore: 21
    • James Berardinelli 25
    If there's a blessing, it's that the sequel isn't appreciably worse than the original - but that's slim praise considering how bad the first one was.
    • Metascore: 29
    • James Berardinelli 25
    It's a wretched attempt at entertainment, ephemerally redeemed only by the appearance of several attractive girls.
    • Metascore: 27
    • James Berardinelli 25
    A catastrophe. This motion picture is an embarrassment to all involved.
    • Metascore: 37
    • James Berardinelli 25
    The result is an atrociously unfunny, unromantic, and unpleasant product.
    • Metascore: 56
    • James Berardinelli 25
    Tracey Ullman is a bright spot in an otherwise sordid, murky production.
    • Metascore: 19
    • James Berardinelli 25
    There's no evidence of craftsmanship or energy. Everything, from the plot to the execution, is plodding and obligatory.
    • Metascore: 12
    • James Berardinelli 25
    This film is an absolute mess.
    • Metascore: 31
    • James Berardinelli 25
    It's remarkably appropriate that Envy is about turds, because that's what the movie is.
    • Metascore: 49
    • James Berardinelli 25
    If there's one thing this motion picture proves, it's that "The Naked Gun 33 1/3" wasn't the final insult from a founding ZAZ (Zucker/Abrams/Zucker) member; this is.
    • Metascore: 45
    • James Berardinelli 25
    It boggles the mind to consider that the fertile writing team of Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer, all of whom spent time scripting episodes of "Seinfeld," could turn out something as abysmally unfunny as Eurotrip.