Tomato 3.5/4
Nacho Libre (2006)
"That's Hess' filmmaking secret: His camera treats its often painfully gawky subjects with the sort of reverence normally given a matinee idol. In Hess' universe, the last shall be first. "
Josh Larsen
Tomato 3/4
The Namesake (2007)
"...accomplishes what many fact-based biopics fail to do. The picture gives us a sense of someone's full, lived life."
Nancy Drew (2007)
"Emma Roberts' Nancy has the sort of innocent smile Paris Hilton likely lacked at birth."
The Nanny Diaries (2007)
"If you've ever rushed your kids from preschool to swimming lessons while a granola bar in the car serves as lunch, this will be an irresistible guilty pleasure."
Splat 2/4
Nanny McPhee (2006)
"...off-putting in a garish way."
Narc (2002)
"An inevitable showdown between two men who don't know how to blink."
NASCAR: The Imax Experience (2004)
"Another one of those lightweight, corporate-sponsored Imax documentaries that resembles a promotional video more than a movie."
Splat 1/4
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)
"...a long way from Harold and Kumar..."
National Security (2003)
"Like its star, the movie is loud, tactless and spectacularly unfunny."
Splat 1.5/4
National Treasure (2004)
"In trying to maintain a PG rating, director Jon Turtletaub establishes a wavering tone that's at turns raucous, infantile and imbecilic."
The Nativity Story (2006)
"'The Nativity Story' isn't religious art. It's a trinket."
Splat 0/4
Never Die Alone (2004)
"DMX thinks he's playing a macho street stud when he's more like Ted Bundy in a black leather jacket."
The New World (2005)
"...too often feels like a Terrence Malick spoof."
Splat 2.5/4
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
"One of those studious adaptations that seem tailor-made for showing to high-school English classes."
Nicotina (2004)
"We thankfully seem to have exhausted our Tarantino imitators up here, but apparently they're still at work south of the border."
Night at the Museum (2006)
"...another one of those family films that believes keeping kids in a constant state of agitation is the same thing as keeping them entertained."
The Night Listener (2006)
"...an oddly inert thriller, a movie of shocking revelations and sneaky twists that somehow still never jars you."
Night Watch (2005)
"...assaultive in the manner of the worst Hollywood action flicks..."
Tomato 4/4
No Country for Old Men (2007)
"Long the merry pranksters of the cinema, the Coens have given irony a vacation."
No Reservations (2007)
"Blaring opera in the kitchen and talking to the fish, Eckhart is the Patch Adams of the culinary world."
Splat 0/0
Norbit (2007)
"...only wants to be a laugh riot, yet it's so loaded with cultural self-loathing that I'm afraid a race riot would be a more proper response."
North Country (2005)
"...succumbs to a number of Oscar Moments -- you know, the sort of grandstanding scenes that ... play beautifully as clips at an awards show."
Northfork (2003)
"...idiosyncratic, dense and often brilliant."
The Notebook (2004)
"The movie's heart is bursting, but it's still in the right place."
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
"...Dench single-handedly turns this unassuming domestic drama into a queasy thriller."
November (2005)
"...spends much of its time replaying scenes with different outcomes, never indicating which is reality, a dream, a memory or just plain dress rehearsal."
The Number 23 (2007)
"Don't freak out, but as I write this review there are exactly 23 paper clips in the drawer of my desk."
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