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Jami Bernard

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:: New York Daily News
Critics' Group:: National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle

Total Reviews:: 436

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3/4	81%	Charlie Wilson's War (2007)	" If Charlie doesn't feel quite real, Hanks at least makes him good company." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 21, 2007
1.5/4	47%	Laura Smiles (2006)	" It's an interesting profile in self-destruction until the script becomes unhinged itself and has Laura doing things that are not so much outrageous as hilariously stupid." — New York Daily News Posted Jul 27, 2007
1/4	0%	Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)	" Between explosions there is enough room left for only minimal character development." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 5, 2007
2.5/4	25%	The Da Vinci Code (2006)	" The movie is so nervous about offending anyone that it's hardly any fun." — New York Daily News Posted May 18, 2006
3/4	56%	Dead Man's Shoes (2006)	" Like Park Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread." — New York Daily News Posted May 12, 2006
1.5/4	13%	Just My Luck (2006)	" The new Lindsay Lohan romantic comedy, Just My Luck, needs more than just luck to overcome an achingly stupid script. It needs a miracle." — New York Daily News Posted May 12, 2006
3/4	52%	Wah-Wah (2006)	" Grant captures the essence both of boyhood rites of passage and a particular time and place for which he clearly holds affection, bumps, ruts and all." — New York Daily News Posted May 12, 2006
2/4	36%	Art School Confidential (2006)	" There are two movies vying to occupy the same space here: a teen comedy about artistic pretension and academic double standards, and a darker, nastier movie about a serial killer." — New York Daily News Posted May 5, 2006
2/4	26%	Hoot (2006)	" I question the message of Hoot, a family movie that tacitly encourages kids to vandalize property and behave like little ecoterrorists." — New York Daily News Posted May 5, 2006
3/4	70%	Mission: Impossible III (2006)	" Logic and humanity would probably gum up the (fire)works. The Mission: Impossible template is about being resourceful, using gadgets in interesting ways to infiltrate the Vatican or swing Tarzan-like over the rooftops of Shanghai." — New York Daily News Posted May 4, 2006
3/4	86%	Zui hao de shi guang (Three Times) (2005)	" ... a lyrical, subtle, chaste and nearly wordless romance between a giggly pool-hall hostess and a former customer on a one-night leave from the military." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 28, 2006
2/4	25%	The Lost City (2005)	" How the movie's politics will sit with the audience aside, one of the problems in this overlong melodrama is the distracting casting of Bill Murray as a wisecracking sidekick and Dustin Hoffman as mobster Meyer Lansky." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 28, 2006
3.5/4	74%	Chinjeolhan geumjassi (Lady Vengeance) (Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) (2005)	" The last of director Park Chanwook's revenge trilogy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is another astonishing achievement of slasher-style justice, moral tussles, and eye-candy design ..." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 28, 2006
2.5/4	24%	RV (2006)	" Had director Barry Sonnenfeld spent more time on sing-alongs and barbecues with the two families and less on Bob's punishing job and bad driving, RV might have gotten more happy campers." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 28, 2006
4/4	97%	L'Arm�e des ombres (Army in the Shadows) (1969)	" Almost 40 years after it was made, Army of Shadows has more to tell us about the internal toll of war and taking a stand than anything Hollywood has produced." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 28, 2006
	31%	Stick It (2006)	" A spirited, dizzyingly athletic movie about female rites of passage within the bitchy, competitive world of Olympics training." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 28, 2006
2/4	36%	Standing Still (2005)	" A movie as inert as its title." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 21, 2006
3/4	33%	The Sentinel (2006)	" The story and style fit comfortably with today's TV and movie fashions: the cop procedural, kinetic editing, a pressure-cooker job rife with competition, and a countdown to possible disaster." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 21, 2006
2.5/4	77%	Look Both Ways (2006)	" A pleasantly peculiar ensemble movie about melancholic people coping with random tragedy." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 14, 2006
3/4	68%	Hard Candy (2006)	" It's really a canny use of the medium to raise serious questions about point of view and empathy in the exploitation genre." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 14, 2006
2/4	30%	The Sisters (2006)	" Richard Alfieri adapted his Chekhov-inspired stage play for this movie, but the outpouring of suppressed memories and emotions still seem to belong to the more personal realm of theater." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 14, 2006
2.5/4	37%	Scary Movie 4 (2006)	" There's only so much humor left to wring from the pup tent of Brokeback Mountain or the matted-hair fetish of the Japanese horror genre." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 14, 2006
2.5/4	71%	Friends With Money (2006)	" No one making movies today has as firm a grasp of the intricacies of female friendship as writer-director Nicole Holofcener." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 8, 2006
3/4	44%	Take the Lead (2006)	" Take the Lead is like that -- it may seem hokey, but it uses the tried and true to get a smile out of you every time." — New York Daily News Posted Apr 7, 2006
3/4	57%	Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (2006)	" A good-natured, gag-filled sequel to the hit animated movie about animals trying to evade extinction while trading one-liners." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 31, 2006
3/4	63%	ATL (2006)	" 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." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 31, 2006
2/4	22%	Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2006)	" If you think the title is endless, wait till you see Goodman's death scene." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 31, 2006
—	40%	American Gun (2002)	— New York Daily News Posted Mar 25, 2006
3/4	77%	The Lady in Question is Charles Busch (2006)	" Performer, performance artist, playwright and all-around charmer, Busch is someone it's hard to get enough of." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 24, 2006
3/4	86%	Inside Man (2006)	" Lee takes the usual potshots at this stewpot of race, power and politics. Only here it's effective as part of the story, as opposed to when it's wielded like a tire iron in the context of a polemic." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 24, 2006
4/4	86%	L'Enfant (The Child) (2006)	" This is a movie about the kind of everyday miracle we all need to believe can happen -- how the tiniest glimmer of human connection can lead the most miserable specimen out of darkness." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 24, 2006
3/4	37%	American Gun (2006)	" While this is not exactly a hopeful movie, it's a polished exercise in the kind of social commentary that can wake people up." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 24, 2006
3/4	89%	Shah-re ziba (The Beautiful City) (2004)	" Here's another deeply resonant little movie from Iran, featuring more polished (yet still naturalistic) acting than usually seen in U.S. productions." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 17, 2006
3/4	73%	V for Vendetta (2006)	" [An] enjoyable -- if occasionally irresponsible -- comic-book thriller." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 17, 2006
3/4	90%	Duck Season (Temporada de patos) (2006)	" It's about the kind of kids who could never sit still enough, unfortunately, for a movie that perfectly captures the frustrations, longings, obsessions and torments of the awkward years before manhood." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 10, 2006
2.5/4	35%	Ask the Dust (2006)	" Atmospheric but awkward drama." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 10, 2006
3/4	92%	Shakespeare Behind Bars (2005)	" The mere fact that Shakespeare can teach hardened criminals to search their souls gives hope that forgiveness and redemption are possible -- even at the bottom of the human barrel." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 10, 2006
2/4	27%	The Shaggy Dog (2006)	" Watching a pack of dogs sniff Tim Allen's butt -- repeatedly -- is probably someone's idea of a good time at the movies. Not mine." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 10, 2006
2/4	76%	Joyeux No�l (Merry Christmas) (2006)	" You can't go wrong with an uplifting, anti-war story like this, but director Christian Carion trowels on the schmaltz." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 3, 2006
2.5/4	52%	Aquamarine (2006)	" Bouncy and sweet, Aquamarine has a mild feminist bent that's played for laughs, but it's definitely a movie for the shallow end of the pool." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 3, 2006
4/4	92%	Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006)	" Once in a great while there's a movie that's so funny, infectious and welcoming - a movie that makes you feel so good about America and the people in it - you just want to climb inside the screen and live there." — New York Daily News Posted Mar 3, 2006
1.5/4	8%	Doogal (2006)	" A dreadful animated movie stuffed with bad puns and little internal logic." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 27, 2006
3/4	82%	Tsotsi (Thug) (2006)	" This Oscar-nominated film convincingly celebrates the embers of decency that can be found in fires that are all but banked." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 24, 2006
—	73%	Workingman's Death (2006)	" It's a triumph of the human spirit that so many people in deadly jobs are able, nevertheless, to marry and have a few happy moments despite lives of hellish labor. Glawogger's intrepid camera finds both the shame and the grace in it." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 24, 2006
3/4	74%	Unknown White Male (2006)	" Bruce's condition seems so bizarre that, at times, you suspect it's a hoax. But the film still manages to raise disquieting issues of personality and identity." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 24, 2006
2/4	40%	Winter Passing (2006)	" Underneath the contemplative tone and poetic visuals lies a disappointingly familiar coming-of-age story." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 17, 2006
2.5/4	72%	Eight Below (2006)	" Walker, of 2 Fast 2 Furious, is 2 flat 2 forgettable." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 17, 2006
2.5/4	73%	Nanny McPhee (2006)	" Any time Thompson curls that prosthetic snaggletooth over her lower lip and murmurs a nearly inaudible harrumph is a comic moment to be treasured." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 4, 2006
3/4	61%	Something New (2006)	" Hamri delivers a thoughtful, entertaining, imperfect but solidly adult movie about the inconvenient path of true love." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 3, 2006

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