Splat |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"Send your teenagers to Nancy Drew if you’re seeking an effective revenge for all their MTV TiVo’s. It’s a movie with the charisma of gangrene." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"The kids will love the candy-box sets and costumes like confectionery-shop windows, the whimsy and farcical grotesqueness of it all." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Nathalie (2003) |
"... the conceit works beautifully with the right personalities, talented and uninhibited, engaged in its execution." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Never Again (2002) |
"I don't think the proper alternative to bad movies about teenagers trying to get laid is more bad movies about middle-aged people trying to get laid." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Never Been Kissed (1999) |
"The most exhilarating American movie I have seen this year -- which isn't saying much." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
New in Town (2009) |
"The comedy is harmless as a farm-fresh egg, sunny side up and runny in the middle. Pleasant enough going down, but an hour after breakfast you can’t remember what it tasted like." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
The New World (2005) |
"The movie is two and a half hours of paralyzing tedium." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"Each director had a deadline of two days to complete his segment. The result is every bit as truncated and zigzaggy as you might imagine. The whole thing looks like it was edited with pinking shears." |
Rex Reed |
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The Next Best Thing (2000) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
"The film is enriched by an imaginatively mixed cast of antic spirits, headed by Christopher Plummer as the subtlest and most complexly evil Uncle Ralph I've ever seen in the many film and stage adaptations of the work." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Night Listener (2006) |
"A creepy head-scratcher more atmospheric than believable." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"A classy tearjerker with butter-cream frosting, raised to the level of (maybe undeserved) artistry by the convincing sincerity and no-nonsense honesty of Diane Lane." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Nights of Cabiria (1957) |
"Even in the mutilated version of the film, Masina shone and sparkled in her shabby role." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002) |
"I've never seen or heard anything quite like this film, and I recommend it for its originality alone." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Nine (2009) |
"Onstage, there was so much glamour I couldn’t decide whom to concentrate on. In the movie, they’re so obnoxious I just wanted them to shut up and go home. The movie is busy, but in their failed homage to Fellini, they’ve lost his mystery and humor." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Nine Lives (2005) |
"The cumulative effect of the rigorously controlled and purposive camera style adds up in the end to a collective portrait of womankind that is greater than the sum of its parts." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Nine Queens (2002) |
"Mr. Bielinsky has fashioned a wicked parable of the financial chaos in contemporary Argentina." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Ninth Day (2005) |
"In this cat-and-mouse Faustian fable, Mr. Diehl and Mr. Matthes are singularly fascinating as tension-filled incompatibles." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"I may be clearly in the minority on this movie. It will almost certainly be number one on my list of movies that other people liked and I didn’t." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"The ending is so lame it made me feverish. Then I remembered the perfection that came before it, and concluded that this is, without question, the best movie ever made by the eccentric Coen brothers." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
No Impact Man (2009) |
"The family has its struggles, certainly, but even more than a statement about the environment, No Impact Man offers a thoughtful narrative on the compromises of marriage and how this particular couple found a way to meet in the middle." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
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No Looking Back (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
No Man's Land (2001) |
"A strange and disturbing film, but it is not without a stirringly humanist compassion even at its most outlandish and outrageous." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
No Reservations (2007) |
"An unnecessary but somewhat charming remake of Mostly Martha, the delicious 2001 German film about food, love and family values that enchanted a lot of skeptics, including me." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
No Such Thing (2002) |
"I watched the brainless insanity of No Such Thing with mounting disbelief." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Noel (2004) |
"One of those unpleasant fiascoes meant to lodge a lump in the throat at Christmas, but it only ends up making you want to bludgeon the elves with their own toy-shop hammers." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Noi (2004) |
"A memorably bleak Icelandic exercise graced by the arresting performance of Tómas Lemarquis in the title role." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Noise (2008) |
"Noise is a funny movie about a serious issue, delivered tongue in cheek but with real conviction." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Normal (2003) |
"A television event that truly deserves the label." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
North Country (2005) |
"It’s a memorable and touching portrayal of a certain kind of woman who is vital and determined instead of neurotic and victimized." |
Rex Reed |
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Not One Less (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Notebook (2004) |
"How rare to see a film that says there is still a value system out there, that being thoughtful and caring is not uncool." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Notes on a Scandal (2006) |
"An exquisitely dark comedy of manners and morals." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) |
"Smugly anti-erotic in the extreme." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) |
"Like Bettie herself, the movie is wholesome and sexy at the same time. I liked it immensely." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Notre Musique (2004) |
"Mr. Godard hasn't earned the right to take the mantle of Jewishness upon himself as if it were some sort of Halloween mask." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Notting Hill (1999) |
"The ending is happy and ironic in equal measure, but most of the fun is just getting there with the right chemistry and compatibility." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Novocaine (2001) |
"O.K., so it's different and peculiar. It's also confused, repulsive and unconvincing." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Nowhere in Africa (2003) |
"The story here is more personal and intimate than in last year's Shanghai Ghetto, in which an entire Jewish community was transported to Shanghai." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Number 23 (2007) |
"Contrived, incomprehensible gibberish that exists for the sole purpose of exposing a miscast star in a career stretch for which he is pathetically unprepared. It’s the worst kind of flop, a flop for its own sake." |
Rex Reed |
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Nurse Betty (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
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