Nacho Libre (2006)

"The beautifully shot Nacho Libre presents its improbable hero -- doughy, boyish and speaking in a dubious accent -- as someone utterly confident of his abilities, and his place in the world."

The Nanny Diaries (2007)

"Satire should be knife-sharp and whip-smart, and The Nanny Diaries never is."

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

"When the audience roared at Napoleon's almost spastic way of slicing the air with his limp-spaghetti arms, I cringed."

Narc (2002)

"Deflated ending aside, there's much to recommend the film."

National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)

"Unofficially, National Lampoon's Van Wilder is Son of Animal House. Officially, it is twice as bestial but half as funny."

National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)

"A thumping, gabby slog."

Neil Young - Greendale (2004)

"Young might have been thinking high-concept, but on the screen, Greendale devolves into overwrought 'save the planet for another day' screeds and Sunday-school homilies."

Never Again (2002)

"A bad movie that happened to good actors."

Never Forever (2008)

"Never Forever has the steaminess of pulp and the stateliness of art."

New in Town (2009)

"New in Town is so choppy that it would seem to have been edited with a pickax."

New York Minute (2004)

"Moldering glob of spun sugar."

Next (2007)

"Cage is cool, quiet and a touch melancholy as Johnson -- carrying the burden of his gift with a brooding brow and a ready punch line."

Nico and Dani (2001)

"One of the better recent contributions to an over-crowded field."

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

"A super-size rehash of the original."

Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

"Rodanthe is a reliably steamy stormy sultry story about Inner Change at the Outer Banks where strangers become intimates."

Nina's Tragedies (2005)

"Engagingly odd and full of sad, funny moments."

Nine Lives (2005)

"[Garcia] leaves you thinking deeply about these people. And leaves you wanting more."

No Country for Old Men (2007)

"An eerily quiet, bracingly bloody, and expertly laid-out adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel."

No Impact Man (2009)

"Like reality TV, there are moments of drama that have an aura of awkward self-consciousness about them and incidents that feel, if not staged, at the very least orchestrated, amped up. But you have to hand it to Beavan and Conlin."

No Reservations (2007)

"Alas, not even Eckhart and Breslin can get Zeta-Jones to simmer."

Nobody Knows (2005)

"It's a quietly powerful work, pulsing with gentle humor and a gripping sense of imminent calamity and dread."

Norbit (2007)

"The question is not whether Murphy can do anything. He can. The question is why he would want to make a movie as squirmingly unfunny as Norbit."

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

"For the most part NATM requires passing acquaintance with the source material."

Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)

"If the conflicts feel warmed over and the resolutions obvious, the performances, particularly those of Rodriguez, Ferlito, Messing and Peņa, are so warm and winning that director Alfredo De Villa makes it a tasty entertainment."

The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

"Mol is a delight as the saucy brunette, a God-fearing innocent seemingly oblivious to the use of those lascivious pinup photographs for which she so cheerfully posed."