Splat 2/4 |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"The comedy is hit and miss, with good bits interrupted by dead patches." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 1/4 |
Nadja (1994) |
"What could have been a brilliant short becomes deadly, stretched to feature length." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Naked (2002) |
"It's hard to say if that's the filmmaker's intention, but the film's honesty is its saving grace." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Naked in Ashes (2005) |
"An inspirational and cautionary film that documents the hermetic lives of a handful of Indian yogis." |
John McMurtrie |
- |
The Naked Kiss (1964) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Namesake (2007) |
"A deeply moving saga of several generations of a Bengali family." |
Ruthe Stein |
Splat 2/4 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"Director Andrew Fleming loses his footing trying to shoehorn Nancy into contemporary times. It's a bad fit, reminiscent of Woody Allen's short story about a professor who whisks Madame Bovary into modern-day Manhattan." |
Ruthe Stein |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nanking (2007) |
"The filmmakers employ a powerful technique of interspersing newsreel footage with wrenching on-camera interviews of survivors and sequences of actors reciting from the letters and memoirs of the Westerners on the scene." |
Walter V. Addiego |
Splat 1/4 |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"There's something painful about watching Scarlett Johansson, who looks as if she never had an indecisive moment in her life, struggle to seem ineffectual." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"In a seemingly blithe way, the movie captures an aspect of child consciousness not usually explored onscreen -- that zone between innocence and knowledge." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 2/4 |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"There's no cohesive story, just a series of opportunities for the title character to strut his gawky stuff." |
Carla Meyer |
Tomato 3/4 |
Naqoyqatsi (2002) |
"The sound of Ma's cello alone is reason not to miss Naqoyqatsi." |
Octavio Roca |
Splat 1/4 |
Narc (2002) |
"There are things to admire about Narc, but they're individual things, not the movie as a whole." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
NASCAR: The Imax Experience (2004) |
"Doesn't quite overcome its shameless self-promotion, but the film will satisfy the Lynyrd Skynyrd set while providing a decent explanation to those who are baffled by the sport's popularity." |
Peter Hartlaub |
Tomato 3/4 |
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) |
Click here to see the review. |
Walter V. Addiego |
Splat 0/4 |
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) |
"Imagine a horrible parallel universe, where Pauly Shore is allowed to direct a remake of Harold and Maude." |
Peter Hartlaub |
- |
National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Stack |
Splat 1/4 |
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) |
"When it runs out of ways to be funny, Van Wilder resorts to schmaltz." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 0/4 |
National Security (2003) |
"Combines a sour story with a repellent lead character, deadly comic schtick and tin-eared direction to produce 90 minutes of sheer, plodding mirthlessness." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
National Treasure (2004) |
"It has no ambition, little sense and false sentiment, but it does have velocity, high spirits and scale." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"This American history-themed action thriller doesn't get many points for realism, but it makes up ground in so many other areas that you probably won't care." |
Peter Hartlaub |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"One of the incidental points of the film, particularly powerful, is that doing the right thing isn't easy, even in the face of divine assurance." |
Mick LaSalle |
- |
The Natural History of the Chicken (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Edward Guthmann |
Splat 2/4 |
Ned Kelly (2004) |
"To get swept up by the hagiographic treatment and to be all that interested in every nuance of this fellow's development, one might really need to be Australian." |
Mick LaSalle |
2/4 |
The Negotiator (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 2/4 |
Neil Young - Greendale (2004) |
"Sitting through Greendale in a Dolby-equipped theater, at high volume with bone-penetrating bass, is an ideal way for Young fans to experience the rustic grandeur of the master's latest album." |
Joe Brown |
Splat 2/4 |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"Another snapshot of his fabled career that's of little interest to anyone outside his many fans." |
Joel Selvin |
- |
Nell (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
Edward Guthmann |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995) |
"It glows with sorrowful humor in its look at two people who seem just right for each other but don't have time on their side." |
Peter Stack |
- |
The Neon Bible (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
Edward Guthmann |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Net (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 1/4 |
Never Again (2002) |
"Never Again swings between false sentiment and unfunny madcap comedy and, along the way, expects the audience to invest in the central relationship as some kind of marriage of true minds." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 2/4 |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"The fights are parceled out at intervals during the last half, all leading to a climactic battle. But it's hard to build suspense when you know it is coming and you know who will win." |
Ruthe Stein |
Splat 2/4 |
Never Been Kissed (1999) |
"Drew Barrymore movies have an advantage that others don't -- they have Drew Barrymore in them. But that doesn't take away from the fact that she makes more lousy pictures than any other good actress." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Never Been Thawed (2006) |
"What we're left with is a movie filled with cultural gags that mock without achieving the level of good satire. Sometimes, alas, being funny just isn't enough." |
Neva Chonin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"DMX has all the charisma you'd expect of a music star, and he uses it to portray King David as larger than life." |
Ruthe Stein |
Tomato 3/4 |
Never Forever (2008) |
"Vera Farmiga is the best American actress you've never heard of." |
G. Allen Johnson |
- |
Never Met Picasso (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 2/4 |
Never Talk to Strangers (1995) |
"It's mysterious and sexy enough to keep tension alive until, too bad, the whole thing collapses with a twist ending that is nearly laughable." |
Peter Stack |
Tomato 2/4 |
New Best Friend (2002) |
"Great trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
The New Eve (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 1/4 |
The New Guy (2002) |
"Lame, haphazard teen comedy." |
Carla Meyer |
Splat 2/4 |
New in Town (2009) |
"There should be a special Oscar for good actors who still give their all when they're in bad movies." |
Peter Hartlaub |
- |
New Jersey Drive (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Stack |
Tomato 3/4 |
New Suit (2002) |
"It's funny and has an interesting edge of bitterness to it." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 4/4 |
The New World (2005) |
"Through elliptical and seemingly oblique methods, he [Malick] forges moments of staggering emotional power." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 2/4 |
New York Minute (2004) |
"Falls somewhere between a home video and a full-blown movie." |
Ruthe Stein |
2/4 |
The Newton Boys (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Stack |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Next (2007) |
"It [explores] different facets of its premise and transforms itself into a fairly competent suspense thriller." |
Mick LaSalle |
2/4 |
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Edward Guthmann |
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