Bernie Reviews

Movie Reviews

• there's a limit to the insight one can glean from this generally straightforward docudrama approach

  by Justin Chang [Variety ]

• the movie is so infantile that it achieves a special kind of purity and gentleness

  by David Denby [New Yorker ]

• the casting choices are unerring, making it virtually impossible to tell the actors from the ordinary folks

  by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]

• shamelessly predisposed toward its subject, Bernie is an eccentric delight

  by Jeannette Catsoulis [NPR ]

• no use trying to describe Bernie. It's a one-of-a-kind inspiration. You will never feel closer to a convicted killer

  by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]

• in the end, the film is too mild for the insidious incident that anchors it

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• even at its most charming as a defense of small-town eccentrics and Texas-style legal process, the film plays a little slowly

  by James Rocchi [MSN Movies ]

• eagerly await the sequel to Bernie

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

• cast and crew will be lucky to escape with their careers intact

  by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice ]

• all those twangy, homespun observations interrupt and annotate the narrative until Black and MacLaine's scenes start to feel as trivial as reenactments on a true-crime TV show

  Review rate : C+ by Adam Markovitz [Entertainment Weekly ]

• actually, to say wishing is to overstate the emotional engagement viewers will have with the film

  by Mary F. Pols [TIME Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Manohla Dargis [New York Times ]

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