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Naked Fame (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Trevor Johnston |
Splat 3/6 |
The Namesake (2007) |
"Nair’s tendency toward touchy-feeliness too often plays like cheap middlebrow pandering." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Nana (2005) |
"Harajuku lovers will get a kick out of Japanese box-office smash Nana, a very kawaii celebration of girl power based on a popular manga about two 20-year-olds who share the same first name." |
Stephen Garrett |
Tomato 4/6 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"Feels more like pop Twin Peaks than anything else; call it the new Hollywood sincerity." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 3/6 |
Nanking (2007) |
"Thankfully, the clarity of the impressions the actors vocalize withstands the gimmickry." |
Mark Holcomb |
Splat 2/6 |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 1/5 |
The Narrows (2009) |
"Imagine Mean Streets with less grit, unconvincing casting and none of Scorsese’s tortured Catholic guilt." |
Hank Sartin |
Splat |
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) |
"The single punch line that sparks genuine laughter comes three minutes into the film; after that, these marriages are made in comedy hell." |
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Splat 1/6 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson (2008) |
"But the actor too earnestly prolongs readings from the director's diaries and letters, turning the experience into more of an undisciplined airing of bitchy candor." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"The eternal battle between the hot-but-arrogant blond and the hot-and-likable brunet continues on new turf in the almost gleefully bad Never Back Down." |
Hank Sartin |
Splat 3/6 |
Never Forever (2008) |
"Writer-director Gina Kim channels Douglas Sirk by way of Korean tearjerkers of the 1960s in this overheated melodrama." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1/6 |
New in Town (2009) |
"A shockingly banal script lends the movie a generic awfulness; you wish Zellweger were in better hands." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
The New Twenty (2009) |
"Chris Mason Johnson’s ensemble drama could’ve been just another earnest time capsule about friends in their late twenties; what saves it from devolving into mere mumblecore is a broader-than-average outlook." |
Anna King |
Tomato 4/6 |
New World Order (2009) |
"Jones and his followers are an easy subject for ridicule, but Meyer and Neel opt for a more nuanced -- even sympathetic -- treatment of the group’s ultralibertarian obsession." |
Drew Toal |
Splat 2/6 |
New York City Serenade (2009) |
"The reason this 2007 drama has languished for so long could be that it’s a bromance whose moment has only now arrived; more likely, it’s because Frank Whaley’s lightweight slice of life is so crashingly ordinary." |
Ben Walters |
Splat 2/5 |
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"You say you love us, collection of shorts, but honestly, we’ve heard that one before. We’re not falling for it." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"Unless you believe that Death Cab for Cutie’s lyrics really speak to your life, Nick and Norah’s charms are frustratingly finite." |
David Fear |
Tomato 5/5 |
Night and Day (2009) |
"Which of the protagonist’s interactions are real and which are artist’s fancy? Hong never lets on, preferring to set character and audience adrift within his motion-picture Rorschach test." |
Keith Uhlich |
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Night of Henna (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Trevor Johnston |
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Night Tide (1961) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 3/6 |
Nights and Weekends (2008) |
"The movie’s attempt to become a Scenes from a Marriage for the SXSW set often comes within millimeters of self-parody." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"Nicholas Sparks’s novels are to Harlequin romances as international coffees are to Nescafé: Marketed as having a little dash of class, they’re still ersatz java." |
Hank Sartin |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007) |
"Parmar's film is light and sweet, comfort food dressed up with a dash of exotic spice." |
Maitland McDonagh |
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Nina's Tragedies (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Anna Smith |
Splat 2/5 |
Nine (2009) |
"Every musical number is edited so haphazardly that any and all expressiveness is lost in a discontinuous swirl of blinding spotlights, bright colors and perspective-obliterating whip-pans." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 1/6 |
The Nines (2007) |
"How do ridiculous films like The Nines (the latest bit of quasimystical nonsense in the Magnolia mold) constitute serious Sundance fare?" |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/5 |
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"Perhaps such phenomenal slaughter is best left to the imagination." |
Kevin Lee |
Tomato 5/6 |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"Like a pair of owlish mind readers, the Coen brothers have somehow done exactly the right thing to repuff their sagging artistic momentum." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
No End in Sight (2007) |
"As a CliffsNotes history lesson, Ferguson’s doc is a much needed attempt to uncover what happened; as a film, it’s a jumble of questionable choices." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/5 |
No Impact Man (2009) |
"No Impact Man eventually runs out of gas -- or rather, pedal-power -- as the filmmakers grope for how to cap the Beavans’ story." |
Nicolas Rapold |
Splat 2/6 |
No Regret (2006) |
"The tale of class-clashing lovers plays out predictably until the final act, which appears to have been inspired by Oscar Wilde’s observations that each man kills the thing he loves and nothing succeeds like excess." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 1/6 |
No Reservations (2007) |
"[A] fatally bland star vehicle." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 2/6 |
Noah's Arc - Jumping the Broom (2008) |
"The film version might be more adequately subtitled Jumping the Shark." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/6 |
Nobel Son (2008) |
"Alan Rickman always plays odious but smart with sangfroid." |
Anna King |
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Noel (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jessica Winter |
Tomato 3/5 |
Nollywood Babylon (2009) |
"The kicks come from some over-the-top clips and Imasuen’s disarming mix of bombast and shrewdness when he appears on set or as a commentator." |
Nicolas Rapold |
Splat 1/6 |
Norbit (2007) |
"When Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry play gals with sky-high BMI, at least their characters offer -- and are shown -- a certain amount of love and respect." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/6 |
Noriko's Dinner Table (2007) |
"Although certain aspects of [director] Sono’s opus may get lost in translation, you don’t need to know Japanese to understand the pitfalls of contemporary communication." |
Raven Snook |
Tomato 4/6 |
Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979) |
"You can love this movie without having to admit it’s merely an okay version of Dracula." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Not Easily Broken (2009) |
"[Has] a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little more fair and balanced in the battle of the sexes." |
Hank Sartin |
Splat 2/5 |
Not Forgotten (2009) |
"Not Forgotten is weighted down by obvious creative choices that mar what might have played out like a telenovela episode of Twin Peaks." |
Stephen Garrett |
Tomato 4/5 |
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009) |
"If Mad Max (a rare stateside success) is the only Down Under–and-dirty flick you remember, you missed out on a vital drive-in culture, one that Mark Hartley’s Not Quite Hollywood does a suitably supercharged job of chronicling." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
Notes on a Scandal (2006) |
"Richard Eyre's direction merely plays up the melodramatic aspects of Zoë Heller's novel, screenwriter Patrick Marber's acidic dialogue occasionally slips into the overwritten, and the rest of the cast gamely chews table scraps." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 3/6 |
Nothing But the Truth (2008) |
"There’s a halfway point when the rush of watching the inner machinations of power players turns into the listless predictability of a TV courtroom drama, crossed with the voyeurism of a mild grindhouse prison movie." |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 3/6 |
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008) |
"Nothing Like the Holidays is actually everything like the holidays -- or at least like many holiday films you’ve seen before." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Splat 2/6 |
Notorious (2009) |
"Notorious delivers nothing but clumsy filmmaking and a greatest-hits checklist, without offering insight into the man or his myth. If you don’t know now…you still won’t know." |
David Fear |
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Nowhere Man (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Trevor Johnston |
Splat 1/6 |
The Number 23 (2007) |
"It just adds up to sheer ineptitude." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 3/6 |
Nursery University (2009) |
"Despite its behind-the-scenes peeks, the film would have benefited from a deeper examination of how these institutions prosper from parental paranoia run amok." |
David Fear |
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