Splat 2/4 |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"For all of Black's slovenly tics, his impish drive is the only thing that keeps Nacho Libre from slipping off the tracks." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Namesake (2007) |
"The actors are so engaging and the settings often so seductive, we pleasurably submit to what is essentially a two-hour penance for all the hurt and wrongs one has ever inflicted upon one's parents." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"This Nancy is indistinguishable from every other Teen Vogue cheerleader tapped by Hollywood for role model of the month over the last 20 years. Casting agents, are there no budding Jodie Fosters in the entirety of America's high school drama clubs?" |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nanking (2007) |
"Nanking submits yet another reminder, if any more were needed, of how wickedness in the 20th century achieved dimensions previously considered unimaginable -- or unbearable." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"Nanny Diaries, through a failure of either verve or nerve, stumbles almost as awkwardly as its heroine does into her child-minder gig." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"Maybe if I weren't as far removed from high school as I am now, I'd be much more into the movie's warped depiction of teenage wasteland." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Naqoyqatsi (2002) |
"If the message seems more facile than the earlier films, the images have such a terrible beauty you may not care." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Narc (2002) |
"The actors are all charged up by their roles, and it rubs off on us: You walk out with a caffeine- and-doughnut high." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
NASCAR: The Imax Experience (2004) |
"Brisk, high-density advertisement for stock-car racing sports a glossy corporate sheen, but may be just congenial enough to convert a few skeptics." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1/4 |
National Security (2003) |
"If it does anything at all, National Security should demonstrate the diminishing returns of Lawrence trying to outswagger, outsass and outshoot Eddie Murphy." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
National Treasure (2004) |
"Sluggish for a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but maybe the kids will learn something." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"It's all pretty inane if you stop to think about it, but director Joe Turteltaub works tirelessly to make sure we don't." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"[The Nativity Story has] little to offer besides a pageant with TV-style melodramatic flourishes." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nearing Grace (2006) |
"An unsympathetic lead, a story that's been told a million times (the Scarlett-Ashley/star-crossed lovers story), relationships that don't make sense and an unfamiliarity with basic physics." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ned Kelly (2004) |
"Ledger, talking into his chest for much of the film in an apparent effort to lend gravity to his performance, is pretty stiff, but so is Jordan's direction." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Neil Young - Greendale (2004) |
"What is intended as a multileveled evocation of Young's values approaches parody, a Christopher Guest-like goof on flower children who stayed too long at the fair." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 4/4 |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"To see and hear Neil Young: Heart of Gold is like soaking in a warm tub filled to the brim with luxuriant, life-restoring music." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Never Again (2002) |
"Schaeffer has to find some hook on which to hang his persistently useless movies, and it might as well be the resuscitation of the middle-aged character." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"Never see movies that give stupid macho advice in their titles." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
Never Been Kissed (1999) |
"The flashback-Josie is so grotesque, and the present-tense-Josie so unbelievable that "Never Been Kissed" is essentially an exercise in humiliation." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Never Been Thawed (2006) |
"Essentially an exercise in the humor of hypocrisy and sketch comedy woven into a coherent whole." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"You'll need all the body armor you can muster for Ernest Dickerson's bruising film noir, which works up more momentum and urgency in any one of its 82 minutes than most crime dramas do in their entirety." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The New Guy (2002) |
"An unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
New in Town (2009) |
"You can see where this is going all the way from Duluth." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
The New World (2005) |
"The New World blows centuries of dust and schoolkid romanticism from the oft-mythologized tale of Pocahontas and the English settlers, relaying old news with an abundantly poetic and visually startling point of view." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
New York Doll (2005) |
"A funny, exhilarating and ultimately bittersweet paean to an era and a man." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
New York Minute (2004) |
"A coy, frantic attempt at screwball comedy, lightly seasoned and more than a little gummy." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1/4 |
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"New York, I Love You weaves 10 short, trivial vignettes into one long, irritating whole." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Next (2007) |
"Time is of the essence in the new sci-fi thriller Next, and all the major players wear expensive watches to prove it." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
"A well-intended but confused serio-comedy that flakes out on its central characters." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Next Friday (1999) |
"If there were any justice, Next Friday would be the last Friday. Somehow, I fear the first weekend grosses will make that unlikely." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
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Tomato |
Nico and Dani (2001) |
"A refreshingly frank treatment of some terribly overworked territory." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
A Night at the Golden Eagle (2002) |
"Another in-your-face wallow in the lower depths made by people who have never sung those blues." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Night at the Museum (2006) |
"A pea-brained fantasy-comedy with a riot of kid-pleasing special effects." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) |
"What follows is less a story than a series of semi-clever ideas." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Night Listener (2006) |
"There's so much menace and portent in this adaptation of Armistead Maupin's novel that you're psyched for a high-voltage compound of shock and awe that never materializes." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
Night of Henna (2005) |
"Writer-director Hassan Zee milks the full melodramatic measure from this formulaic clash-of-generations-and-culture storyline." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"Rodanthe is the Death Valley of erotic illusion." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002) |
"It's not like having a real film of Nijinsky, but at least it's better than that eponymous 1980 biopic that used soap in the places where the mysteries lingered." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nine Queens (2002) |
"Ingenious and charming." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Nines (2007) |
"The cosmic "resolution" that ties the stories together proves less interesting than the stories themselves." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
The Ninth Gate (1999) |
"It overstays its welcome by 20 minutes or so, just long enough for us to begin to feel a little silly for having so much fun." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"This acerbic, darkly poetic Coen brothers' take on the Cormac McCarthy novel is calculated to give you the willies." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
No End in Sight (2007) |
"...words speak even louder than visual evidence in Charles Ferguson's lacerating analysis of America's occupation of Iraq." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
No Man's Land (2001) |
"Scathingly tense, blackly funny and ultimately indelible." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
No Reservations (2007) |
"Based on the popular German comedy Mostly Martha, it doesn't leave a bad taste. It doesn't leave much taste at all, save perhaps for the cloying echoes of Velveeta cheese." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
No Such Thing (2002) |
"What [Hartley] wants, and gets, is a fablish mood." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nobody Knows (2005) |
"The movie's accumulation of little traumas and tiny victories sneaks to a climax that, however unsettling, doesn't upend the movie's alert, steadfast graces." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Noi (2004) |
"Teen angst, Icelandic style, rendered with a slyly humorous." |
Jan Stuart |
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