Movie Review: ‘Bernie’

Based on a true story, Jack Black plays assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede in the sleepy town of Carthage, Texas.
Movie Review: ‘Bernie’
Jack Black in the comedy-drama “Bernie,” a film about a mortician who befriends a wealthy widow and creates the illusion she is alive after killing her. (Deana Newcomb)
Mark Jackson
5/4/2012
Updated:
10/1/2015
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Mark Jackson is the chief film critic for The Epoch Times. In addition to the world’s number-one storytelling vehicle—film, he enjoys martial arts, weightlifting, Harley-Davidsons, vision questing, rock-climbing, qigong, oil painting, and human rights activism. Mark earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Williams College, followed by a classical theater training, and has 20 years’ experience as a New York professional actor, working in theater, commercials, and television daytime dramas. He recently narrated the Epoch Times audiobook “How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World,” which is available on iTunes and Audible. Mr. Jackson is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic.
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