Starting in January 1992, Berardinelli began writing movie reviews, his first being a review of the 1991 drama
Grand Canyon. His first review published to the Internet was of the 1992 drama
Scent of a Woman, which was posted both to
Usenet and his Colossus Inc-hosted website, ReelViews.
Roger Ebert referred to Berardinelli as "the best of the Web-based critics" in 2001, and wrote a foreword for the 2003 book,
Reelviews, a collection of Berardinelli's reviews. Berardinelli is a member of the
Broadcast Film Critics Association and is a
Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. In January 2004, he began his blog
ReelThoughts, by which time his reviews could attract as many as 100,000 readers, up from around 1,400 weekly readers in 1997. In August 2006, the site moved to ReelViews.net, a domain Berardinelli had originally registered by late 2000. In November 2015, Berardinelli published the first book in a
fantasy novel trilogy entitled
The Last Whisper of the Gods. The second book followed in January 2016, the third in March 2016. Berardinelli appears as a guest on the pop-culture radio program
Fictional Frontiers every two weeks. ==Annual film rankings==