Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
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For 1,019 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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43% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.5 points higher than other critics.
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Jami Bernard's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 618 out of 1019
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Mixed: 238 out of 1019
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Negative: 163 out of 1019
1,019
movie reviews
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Jami Bernard 75
It's got style and charisma to spare, with all the characters acting from fiery reserves of self-interest, including Christopher Plummer as a bank president with a secret in his safe-deposit box. -
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Jami Bernard 75
While this is not exactly a hopeful movie, it's a polished exercise in the kind of social commentary that can wake people up. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Busch lovingly and meticulously channels such grand dames as Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck and Norma Shearer in a way that surpasses imitation, camp and drag show. He captures their essence, and therefore the essence of cinema itself. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Fresh and unexpected. It feels like a real window on the lives of disenfranchised youths - these are in South Atlanta - as they make their way in a society that doesn't cut them any breaks. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Take the Lead hits all the marks you'd expect of a movie like this, but it's done vibrantly and with warm-blooded characters. -
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Jami Bernard 75
A psychosexual thriller that treads a thin line between art and exploitation. The mere fact that it manages this queasy high-wire act is what sets debut director David Slade's slick mind game apart from the drooling pack. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Peregrym's performance as fiery, troubled teen Haley Graham is a triumph of charisma over technique. -
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Jami Bernard 75
The supporting cast, including Ving Rhames, Laurence Fishburne and gorgeous Maggie Q, is underused, but the movie delivers the goods. -
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Jami Bernard 75
This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Thanks to Grant's script and direction, the exotic Swaziland location (a film first) and an engaging cast, this smartly crafted drama radiates a gently comic pulse. -
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Jami Bernard 75
For all its folksy jocularity, the movie inspires a sense of global patriotism. In the big picture, every little dish counts. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Cannibalizes "Saturday Night Fever" for everything from structure to plot, but does it adorably. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Impressionistic and open to interpretation, which is a kind way of saying that there's no way to figure out the ending. -
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Jami Bernard 75
This is a sophisticated and unsettling documentary marred only by a voice-over taken from the writings of Jamaica Kincaid. -
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Jami Bernard 75
This is a serious and well-acted drama, not a jokey ripoff, whose relevance (however distant) to Columbine is a plus. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Makes a fine date movie...thanks to its life-affirming view of friendship, love and honor. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Explores the comparatively enlightened Berlin culture that had allowed homosexuality to flourish in intellectual and social circles before the Nazis forcibly changed the national mind-set. -
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Jami Bernard 75
In a hilarious bit of actorly sleight-of-hand, Holm (who is not new to the role of Napoleon, having it played it twice before) slips effortlessly from emperor to impostor. -
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Jami Bernard 75
It revives an innocently pleasurable genre - shades of Burt Lancaster and Errol Flynn - that combines lusty adventure, humor, the great outdoors and satisfying storytelling without having to concoct it in a special-effects lab. -
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Jami Bernard 75
Here's one movie you'll want to see with an audience of squealing, excited, terrified kids, their arms extended greedily to grab, squish or ward off all things exoskeletal and beady-eyed. It's gross, but in the nicest way (meaning no roaches). -
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Jami Bernard 75
It's a wonderfully silly family movie that holds its audience in high regard. -
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Jami Bernard 75
The real revelation of Sound and Fury is how it introduces hearing people to a culture they insist on ignoring. -
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Jami Bernard 75
A fine example of how a character-based story can be so compelling you don't miss the frills. -
