Roger Ebert's Reviews of ReelViews

"#1: James Berardinelli: Few pro critics work harder than James Berardinelli, who posts some 250 literate, intelligent reviews a year, even though he has a day job. In September I met Berardinelli at the Toronto Film Festival and found that he drives an hour each way to Philadelphia four nights a week to see the movies. When he finds time to write, I dunno -- but he's good. A newspaper looking for a film critic couldn't do much better than hiring him."

- Roger Ebert

From Yahoo! Internet Life, Volume 2, Number 4, September 1996:

"The Web makes possible the great democratic ideal of self-publishing, and many would-be movie critics have their own pages. Many of them are really fans, not critics, and some of them are suspect (one brief paragraph of misspelled words does not build confidence). But some of the Web-based critics are excellent, and there is one who stands above the crowd. James Berardinelli describes himself as an electrical engineer from Morristown, New Jersey, and has written some 1,000 movie reviews over the last four years. That's more than many full-time critics manage. Berardinelli is literate, opinionated, well-informed, and a good writer. He also is familiar with film history; unlike many Web critics, he knows the classics."

- Roger Ebert