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Naked Boys Singing (2007) |
"A slightly enhanced film version of the stage production of the risque, Off-Broadway musical revue." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Namesake (2007) |
"A magnificent meditation on what it might mean for many immigrants to be American in the 21st Century." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
The Namesake (2007) |
"Kal Penn, who got kooky for 'Harold and Kumer Go To White Castle,' shows his impressive serious side here as Gogol Ganguli, a guy who suspects that his given name may be a fatal turnoff with females." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Namesake (2007) |
"If you're somebody who's spent your life really angry about the name your parents stuck you with, then you'll relate wholeheartedly to Harold and Kumer Go To White Castle's Kal Penn in The Namesake, cringing whenever he's called Gogol Ganguli." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"A great coming of age girl movie that prioritzes teen personality and brain power over female body appeal." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"A great coming of age girl movie that prioritzes teen personality and brain power over female body appeal." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"Girlfriends Scarlett and Alicia Keys rule, in this girl fight class warfare class act." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"Girlfriends Scarlett and Alicia Keys rule, with plenty of wise and candid back talk from the army of immigrant nanny lifers, who view Scarlett's nanny skeptically as a temp tourist in the exploitative, luckless biz." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Narrows (2009) |
"A slice of life mobster tale about bottom feeder Bay Ridge Brooklyn hustlers in the shadow of the Verrazano Bridge, The Narrows manages to be both lyrical and brutal." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Narrows (2009) |
" A slice of life mobster tale about bottom feeder Bay Ridge Brooklyn hustlers in the shadow of the Verrazano Bridge, The Narrows manages to be both lyrical and brutal." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Narrows (2009) |
"A slice of life mobster tale about bottom feeder Bay Ridge Brooklyn hustlers in the shadow of the Verrazano Bridge, The Narrows manages to be both lyrical and brutal." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Narrows (2009) |
"A slice of life mobster tale about bottom feeder Bay Ridge Brooklyn hustlers in the shadow of the Verrazano Bridge, The Narrows manages to be both lyrical and brutal." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3/4 |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"Over-stimulating brain bubblegum guaranteed to take kids under ten straight to adrenaline heaven!" |
Kam Williams |
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National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"Though it's got nothing at all to do with this big election year, it should be no Secret by now that Nicolas Cage is going into politics with this movie - sorta - as he rummages through skeletons in selective Presidential closets." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"Too bad such a stellar combo cast had to get dumbed down for such inconsequential pandemonium." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"Too bad such a stellar combo cast had to get dumbed down for such inconsequential pandemonium." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 2/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"This visually-vivid, if emotionally-flat version of the prophetic Biblical tale chronicles the unconsummated marriage of Mary and Joseph and the host of woes visited upon the couple on the way to the miraculous virgin birth." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"The Karate Kid joins the Fight Club and kicks butt!" |
Kam Williams |
Splat 1/4 |
New in Town (2009) |
"A transparent fish-out-of-water romantic comedy by A Danish director which won't work with an American audience." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
New in Town (2009) |
"Frozen nipples, a borderline dragon lady in distress, and class struggle at the dinner table. And the first movie this year to go toe to toe with the looming financial crisis, and those who suffer its effects most. Norma Rae In Stilettos." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
New in Town (2009) |
"Frozen nipples, a borderline dragon lady in distress, and class struggle at the dinner table. And the first movie this year to go toe to toe with the looming financial crisis, and those who suffer its effects most. Norma Rae In Stilettos." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
New World Order (2009) |
"New World Order essentially offers nothing 'new' on the topic, nor displays any concrete 'order' in structuring its haphazard collage of hit and run gotcha moments." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Next Day Air (2009) |
"Mike Epps" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Next Day Air (2009) |
"A screwball comedy/splatter flick which might best thought of as a campy cross of Cotton Comes to Harlem and No Country for Old Men." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"A meandering Manhattan travelogue with a payoff worth the wait, some gross moments notwithstanding." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"All is forgiven in a wild money shot defining moment, when passion blooms in stereo off camera, as a studio hideaway's flashing voice level meters dance around, in synch with sex. A match ultimately made in digital heaven." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"All is forgiven in a wild money shot defining moment, when passion blooms in stereo off camera, as a studio hideaway's flashing voice level meters dance around, in synch with sex. A match ultimately made in digital heaven." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 4/4 |
Night and Day (2009) |
"An intriguing look at a hedonist in the midst of a midlife crisis, a creep whose dalliances and denial slowly catch up with him." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2/2 |
Night at the Museum (2006) |
"A readily-digestible, and just as easily forgettable, frenetically-paced family flick." |
Kam Williams |
Splat |
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) |
" Stiller's still stuck in the first movie, with little to impress beyond some hi-tech wizardry. I See Dead Props, along with a story that could have used some pick me up too. And with artifacts gone wild, as the museum cross-pollinates with Toys R Us." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Night Train (2009) |
"An eerie noir commute with politically charged baggage on board, the film is visually haunting as both the train and ghoulish narrative weirdly accelerate into effectively surreal territory, taking the damaged planet with them as it hurls along." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Night Train (2009) |
"An eerie noir commute with politically charged baggage on board, the film is visually haunting as both the train and ghoulish narrative weirdly accelerate into effectively surreal territory, taking the damaged planet with them as it hurls along." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nights and Weekends (2008) |
"A frequent-flyer drama examining 21st Century mating habits." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2/4 |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"A sappy chick flick for soap opera fans inclined to sacrifice character development in favor of panoramic seascapes and lingering close-ups of locked lips and loins." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2/4 |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"Another sappy soap opera for Nicholas Sparks fans satisfied by panoramic seascapes offset intermittently by lingering interludes of dysfunctional strangers locking lips and loins." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Nim's Island (2008) |
"Jodie 'Brave One' Foster is still peeved, though now it's less about what bad people do, than how icky their unsanitary their germs are. And she isn't half bad either doing a divine nitwit dining on worms or playing soccer with a coconut in the wilds." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Nim's Island (2008) |
""Jodie 'Brave One' Foster is still peeved, though now it's less about what bad people do, than how icky their unsanitary their germs are. And she isn't half bad either doing a divine nitwit dining on worms or playing soccer with a coconut in the wilds." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007) |
"You know a cross-cultural, gender-bending dramedy has issues, when its most memorable moment is a blasphemous, bouncy Bollywood musical finale featuring a female impersonator." |
Kam Williams |
Splat |
Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007) |
"Latent lesbians 'Bend It Like Emeril' in formulaic female empowerment flick." |
Kam Williams |
- |
Nine (2009) |
"Daniel Day-Lewis Talks Nine, Stage Fright, And Being Surrounded By A Sea Of Naughty Women" |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Nines (2007) |
"Most of the action, such as it is, plays out behind the camera and in the back rooms off the set, as Hollywood types bicker, backbite and betray. Yawn." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"Rain" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"An East meets West splatterfest unfolding like a lethal cross of Crouching Tiger and Sam Peckinpah." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"Dumb and dumber German troops, homicidal hotties into doing laundry, creative enemy amputations without benefit of anesthesia, and martial arts hostile takeover of big bucks bank accounts that could have gone the less frenzied route of identity theft." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 4/4 |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"Javier Bardem steals the show as perhaps the most unnerving screen villain of the year, a monster who ups the ante in terms of tension by holding a cattle gun to his victims' heads while flipping a coin to determine who lives and who dies." |
Kam Williams |
- |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"No Country For Old Men is biblical, meditative but also a brash, horrific and even comical post-modern cowboy dystopia." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"Javier Bardem's sadistic fiend has got to be the most ghoulish homicidal maniac around since Jack The Ripper." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"A brash, biblical and even comical neo-Western where cowpokes trade in lassos for Uzi's along the Tex-Mex border." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 4/4 |
No End in Sight (2007) |
"While this incriminating documentary makes a convincing case against the White House, it arrives a bit belatedly, at a juncture when John McCain is just about the only loyalist left still sipping the Bush Kool Aid." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
No Reservations (2007) |
"A zesty concoction of offbeat, temperamental characters who do their best to resist one another in matters of the heart, while also swallowing a whole lot more than their pride." |
Prairie Miller |
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