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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 25 Apr 2012

Where the movie is at its best is in the comically laconic, straight-to-the-camera remarks offered by Carthage's residents…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 25 Apr 2012

It was a stroke of genius, at least a miniature one, to cast Black in this role – he's made to play the affable teddy bear who could snap…

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By Mary Pols (197) for Time (1,811) on 25 Apr 2012

Instead of exploring something bigger, like the origins of Bernie's need for the company of elderly ladies (which Hollandsworth touched on…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 25 Apr 2012

For a motion picture about one person losing her life and another losing his freedom, Bernie doesn't deserve to be as flippant as it ultimately is…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Apr 2012

Gaudily vibrant, at times morbidly funny…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 Apr 2012

This is writer-director Richard Linklater at his wry, whimsical best, and considering he was the filmmaker behind 1993's Dazed and Confused,…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Apr 2012

Though the lightness of Bernie can get disconcerting at times, even cartoonish, Linklater approaches the story with a bemused curiosity that…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 Apr 2012

Jack Black redeems himself (for Gulliver's Travels, among other things) with a subtly quirky performance that's one of his personal best…

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By Adam Markovitz (84) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 24 Apr 2012

All those twangy, homespun observations interrupt and annotate the narrative until Black and MacLaine's scenes start to feel as trivial as…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 24 Apr 2012

What gives Bernie its fizz, its kick, its sheer enjoyable weirdness is the give-and-take between Black and MacLaine, who seems to live with…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 24 Apr 2012

You would be hard pressed to find a film that feels more true to a reporter's experience of an event…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Apr 2012

Linklater brings a shambling, easygoing charm to this unlikely comedy based on a real-life Texas murder case...and Jack Black, of all people,…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 24 Apr 2012

An inventive drama about a gregarious assistant funeral director in a small Texas town where he is widely cherished…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for MSN Movies (470) on 24 Apr 2012

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

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By Jake Coyle (526) for Associated Press (1,685) on 24 Apr 2012

Throughout, there's a tension of real life and fiction, and a pervading sense that fiction has little chance of matching the real thing…

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By Bill Weber (150) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 Apr 2012

A surprisingly shapeless true-crime farce which never creates a convincing context for the odd relationship between a pious East Texas mortician…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 24 Apr 2012

It's a delectable slice of Southern Gothic humor, a side show of rednecks and Bubbas and Aunt Tooties…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Apr 2012

Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Apr 2012

Matthew McConaughey finally locates his perfect métier as the town's Fordian skeptic, a district attorney who smells a rat…

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By David Denby (676) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 22 Apr 2012

It's an odd movie - mild in tone and circumspect, yet darkly funny, and done in a hybrid form that I don't think has been used so thoroughly before…

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