ROTTEN TOMATOES: Beverly Berning

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	" ... a beautifully directed and passionate homage to the dignity of one man against the indignity of the times." Posted Aug 19, 2008	Trumbo (2008)	76%
	"It feels like an American movie, dubbed in French ... Or perhaps, better put, it feels like a bunch of French people trying to act like Americans." Posted Jul 26, 2008	Tell No One (2008)	92%
	"This is Werner Herzog at his best -- a cynic with a big heart, and a nasty wit." Posted Jul 12, 2008	Encounters at the End of the World (2008)	94%
	"*[Savage Grace] is like a Vanity Fair* article; it's eye candy, with ... a creepy dysfunctional family drama thrown in to give it added value.*" Posted Jul 3, 2008*	Savage Grace (2008)	41%
	"*Somewhere along the line, the movie version of Sex and the City* got too much Botox injected into the script, and all the life was ironed out of it.*" Posted Jun 10, 2008*	Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)	51%
	" ... at times humorous, at times touching, and unfortunately, at times tedious and distancing." Posted Jun 9, 2008	Alexandra (2008)	94%
	"... a stirring narrative, a movie of epic dramatic force that holds its own with the best of any major work of cinema." Posted Jun 1, 2008	Indestructible (2008)	n/a
	"No End is Sight is the product of a calmly systematic desire for knowledge, and as such, does not offer solutions, only profound insight." Posted May 18, 2008	No End in Sight (2007)	94%
	"*If it is the objective of a work of art to hold up a mirror to our own lives, then 51 Birch Street,* in all its makeshift craftsmanship, is a great work of art.*" Posted May 18, 2008*	51 Birch Street (2006)	95%
	"*Those who find Rumi's wisdom as unknowable as desert sand constantly reshaped by the wind that blows it, will have the same reaction to Bab'Aziz." Posted Apr 17, 2008*	Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)	60%
	"After watching this movie, I felt like every nerve ending in my body was shooting sparks. No wonder these boys dedicate their lives to this dance. It's electrifying." Posted Mar 30, 2008	Planet B-Boy (2008)	91%
	"Jean-Jacques Beniex's bold experiment is worth a place of importance in cinematic history." Posted Mar 22, 2008	Diva (1981)	95%
9/10	"*There are certain times in a filmmaker's career when everything comes together in a kind of perfect storm ... For Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park* is that film.*" Posted Mar 20, 2008*	Paranoid Park (2008)	75%
	"Andr� T�chin� is a master at taking life experiences and stripping them of sentimentality, leaving us with only the bare-bones honesty of relationships and desire." Posted Mar 3, 2008	The Witnesses (2008)	85%
	"*As a black comedy, In Bruges* is a work of comic genius.*" Posted Mar 2, 2008*	In Bruges (2008)	80%
	"Caramel is a warm, funny and compassionate movie that examines five women who are at very different stages in their lives, each one with a particular problem to work out." Posted Mar 2, 2008	Caramel (2008)	91%
	"The Savages, writer/director Tamara Jenkins's second film, is easily the best comedy of the year." Posted Jan 15, 2008	The Savages (2007)	91%
	"This is Frank Langella's movie. He's been given a plum of role, and he bites into it with amazing grace and precision." Posted Jan 14, 2008	Starting Out in the Evening (2007)	86%
	"It's another beautiful, sensual film, and another homage to what makes life enjoyable." Posted Dec 28, 2007	All In This Tea (2008)	82%
	"This is no experimental tale, but a gripping yarn, and the issues it confronts are complicated ones, with many sides." Posted Dec 21, 2007	The Kite Runner (2007)	66%
	" ... one of the best loved films in cinema history." Posted Nov 28, 2007	The Red Balloon (1955)	100%
	"Southland Tales really is a guy movie, right down to all the sci-fi, comic book and porn references..." Posted Nov 28, 2007	Southland Tales (2007)	34%
	"Bella is a (...) parable of remorse and redemption, a tale of two damaged souls who end up helping each other find release from their tragic pasts." Posted Nov 14, 2007	Bella (2007)	47%
	"Klimt is a feast for the eyes and the mind." Posted Oct 17, 2007	Klimt (2006)	29%
	"The movie is at its best as a collage of environments representing states of mind." Posted Oct 17, 2007	Silk (2007)	8%
	"Luckily, there is Hartley's immense wit to carry it through, but wit can be a dangerous gift, especially when the capacity to be clever overwhelms all else." Posted Jul 10, 2007	Fay Grim (2007)	44%
	"It's too bad it took so long for the film to get here, because it's not only the best part, it's also the very end." Posted Jul 10, 2007	Angel-A (2007)	43%
	"Flanders is relentlessly bleak, but as it works its way into your bloodstream, the aftertaste is somewhat akin to relief...For those who allow it, Flanders offers the comfort of recognition, and acceptance, of what it means to be human." Posted Jul 10, 2007	Flanders (2006)	71%
	"Much like Rinpoche has let go of what others expect a Buddhist leader to be like, Patten's documentary is her own way of letting go of what others expect a documentary about Buddhism to be like." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Words of My Perfect Teacher (2006)	n/a
	" It is like a duet in which both men work together to achieve a kind of cinematic harmony, and out of it comes a beautiful recording of the universal struggle that is life." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Rom�ntico (2006)	96%
	"Someone should have figured out what this movie was really about before they even started. Sometimes it is better to begin at the very beginning." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Premonition (1972)	n/a
	""Pan's Labyrinth" is impeccable filmmaking; it alone might be enough to seal del Toro's reputation as a master of cinema." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)	96%
	""Off the Black" is writer/director James Ponsoldt's first movie...When I found out how young Ponsoldt is, only twenty-six, I was shocked that someone so young could have such insight into, and such empathy for, the existential disquietude of middle age." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Off the Black (2006)	67%
	"Hugh Grant is a genius at romantic comedy. He has just the right blend of good looks, sex appeal, wit, sensitivity, self-awareness, and even more endearing, self-mockery." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Music and Lyrics (2007)	63%
	"...Exiled is compromised by the feeling one gets that Johnnie To has been watching too many westerns. Like in a Sergio Leone movie, all the characters try to strike iconic poses, clad with shades, munching on cigars, tilted gun in hand." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Exiled (2007)	81%
	"As the mother of a preteen daughter who has dragged me to a number of teen movies, I was captivated by this strange mutant of a movie. There is skill here, and some poignant scenes that stayed with me, including a first kiss scene that's one of the bette" Posted Apr 23, 2007	Dreamland (2006)	71%
	"Globalization is here to stay, and it presents us with yet another set of problems that we must address. China Blue does not offer solutions, but it might help get us to stop ignoring the problems. It is the little elephant that roared." Posted Apr 23, 2007	China Blue (2005)	100%
	"Let us hope that Noyce's influence in Hollywood will help give this film the attention it deserves, and that his newfound activism will have some effect." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Catch a Fire (2006)	76%
	"This movie is another sign of a growing tendency in contemporary cinema towards conspicuous imitation. It seems that originality is no longer something to aspire to." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Blood and Chocolate (2007)	10%
	"...I don't have a problem with you guys making my gender the propagator of evil...But if you're going to go around blaming a woman for everything, the least you could do is give her character some depth, instead of making her into some cardboard cut-out.." Posted Apr 23, 2007	The Unknown ()	n/a
	"If the filmmakers are telling us that Diane's artistic creativity was unleashed by the love of a good freak, then it's a shame. To turn a story so full of good intentions at the beginning into another movie about a woman who is liberated from the chains" Posted Apr 23, 2007	Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)	30%
	"[History Boys] is most potently about the love of teaching, and how the best teachers can help give meaning to existence; and if not meaning in the grand sense, at least an appreciation of what it means to be human." Posted Apr 23, 2007	The History Boys (2006)	63%
	"The American military comes across as bungling and ineffective as protectors. If people thought we didn't know what we were doing in Iraq before, this is yet more evidence of our incompetence." Posted Apr 23, 2007	The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2007)	86%
	"But Verhoeven's films are not meant to offer profound moral insights. And "Black Book" does not aspire to historical accuracy. Instead, "Black Book" is pure entertainment, of the hollow variety. Verhoeven gives you your money's worth of titillation..." Posted Apr 23, 2007	Black Book (2007)	76%
	"A film of impeccable style, with every note hit to perfection, but without much soul." Posted Apr 16, 2007	The Page Turner (2007)	77%
	"Jasmila Zbanic also deserves our admiration for casting Karanovic, and for making a film of great power about the fate of that ultimate contradiction -- a child born out of hatred." Posted Apr 9, 2007	Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007)	98%
	"Someone should have figured out what this movie was really about before they even started." Posted Apr 2, 2007	Premonition (2007)	8%

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