Splat 1/4 |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"The film's sheer lack of everything that customarily passes for comic fuel -- energy, wit, character, fun, a plot -- renders Nacho Libre a torturous patience tester of the first order." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Namesake (2007) |
"Ultimately, the film leaves us floundering." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"This Nancy Drew, not too sappy and not at all snappy, looks fully prepared for the next instalment." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"What puts The Nanny Diaries a cut above the run-of-the-mill romantic comedy is the acting." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"Nanny McPhee has its own enduring charm, a mix of witty dialogue, pie-throwing slapstick and eccentric family portrait." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"It's not as hilarious as it thinks it is, and it's sometimes too weird for words, but it is often pretty funny." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Narc (2002) |
"Jason Patric and Ray Liotta make for one splendidly cast pair." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/5 |
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) |
"Imagine Animal House with the unfunny Chevy Chase in the lead, instead of either Matheson, John Belushi or Tom Hulce, and you've pretty much nailed the biggest problem with this evil incarnation." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
National Security (2003) |
"The film is clearly an anti-racist warning, but Earl's silly, closed-minded anger is a major distraction from the comedy though most of the movie." |
Daphne Gordon |
Splat 2/5 |
National Treasure (2004) |
"Cage plays Gates way too broadly and crudely; I half expected him to break into his patented Elvis impersonation." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"As much as you want to applaud the movie's winking commitment to its own Looney Tunes logic, it's frustrating when lazy and illogical plot devices are used like cattle prods." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"The Nativity Story may prove just idiosyncratic enough to alienate the doctrinaire believers but not quite weird enough to appeal to revisionists, cultists or regular holiday moviegoers." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
Neil Young - Greendale (2004) |
"A uniquely and even inspirationally personal work -- particularly if you're down with the movie's message that personal expression is mass culture's Public Enemy No. 1." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/4 |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"A film that is both a celebration and a wistful look back." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Never Again (2002) |
"There are enough things that poke out rather boldly from Never Again's modest proportions to keep it verging on interesting. And not all of them are strapped to Jill Clayburgh's waist." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"Tyler does not live on planet Earth, but planet Hollywood formula, where the storm clouds of Fight Club hang over the once charming but now seedy landscape of The Karate Kid." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 3/5 |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"The various stories are strong enough to compensate for any acting deficiencies." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
New Best Friend (2002) |
"Instead of trying to bust some blondes, [Diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
The New Guy (2002) |
"There's no getting around the fact that this is Revenge Of The Nerds Revisited -- again." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
New in Town (2009) |
"There's a Capra-esque joy in this small and unpretentious movie." |
Greg Quill |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The New World (2005) |
"He [Malick] swoons for his own well-honed image as a painter of woodland idylls, a man who leaves no sway of wheat or ripple of water unmet by his fatherly gaze." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
New York Minute (2004) |
"To say that New York Minute is a vehicle for the Olsen sisters is perhaps a slight to four-wheeled conveyances of all kinds." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2.5/4 |
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"While many of the segments amuse, and rarely wear out their welcome (the average running time is eight minutes apiece), it rapidly becomes apparent that each of them has some kind of twist, like an O Henry short story." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Next (2007) |
"Colossal waste of time." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
"It's almost impossible to believe that the director, John Schlesinger, was once the sure hand behind Midnight Cowboy. Did he do this one by telephone?" |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Niagara Motel (2005) |
"Too many characters and so much plot that no single scenario ever develops into an absorbing drama." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
"There's a bevy of hiss-worthy baddies to pick up the dramatic slack, beginning with Plummer's wonderfully nefarious Uncle Ralph." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"Nick & Norah's only wishes it had some of Juno's wit and energy." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Nico and Dani (2001) |
"Filmmaker Gay nimbly navigates the raging waters of burgeoning sexuality." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Night at the Museum (2006) |
"Fun for the whole family? Probably not, but certainly for those members who are only permitted to hang out when the lawyers say it's okay." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) |
"Azaria pretty much steals the show." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Night Listener (2006) |
"There's more to this story than meets the eye -- or ear -- especially when Collette, magnetic in her intensity, appears as a figure straight out of Vertigo or North by Northwest." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Night Watch (2005) |
"While the movie's inspirations might be glam-Hollywood action fantasies, Night Watch fairly wallows in damp, post-Soviet decay." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"No character in this turbulent sea of love crashing on the shores of misfortune is any more developed than they are in Sparks' potboiler." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
Nightwatching (2007) |
"What truly galls is that Greenaway has the germ of a great movie here." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002) |
"Certainly no biopic, Nijinsky is short on facts, but long on expression." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
Nim's Island (2008) |
"The movie is not particularly rewarding for adults or children who believe that even a tale of fantastic events should be governed by plausibility." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 4/5 |
Nine Queens (2002) |
"If Nine Queens draws you on a journey that eventually leads up a garden path toward your own suckerhood, it's all the more pleasurable for having done so with such slick expertise." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"Thanks to the movie's dire script, flat performances and excessively slick, tricked-out fight scenes, it gets increasingly hard to care about anything that goes on here, even when it happens to be visible without the use of night-vision goggles." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"No Country for Old Men may just be the year's best picture." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
No Reservations (2007) |
"A shamelessly microwaved American rewarming of the 2002 German romantic comedy Mostly Martha." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nobel Son (2008) |
"Nobel Son is as darkly funny as it is exhilarating." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nobody Knows (2005) |
"The film's extraordinary power derives from the filmmaker's restraint. Kore-eda is less interested in the obvious moral delinquency behind the incident than in the lives of the children who are condemned to survive it." |
Geoff Pevere |
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Nobody Waved Good-Bye (1964) |
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Tomato |
Nora (2001) |
"Lynch manages to make Nora's temperamental tempestuousness not only credible and admirable, but deeply alluring." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/4 |
Norbit (2007) |
"Think Big Momma's House blended with a particularly loathsome Jerry Lewis movie, and you've got the picture. Grimacing yet?" |
Peter Howell |
- |
Normal (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 2/4 |
Normal (2007) |
"[The unhappy characters] are not richly developed, but it seems characteristic of this genre to highlight one-dimensional individuals." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
North Country (2005) |
"If there was ever any thought that perhaps Whale Rider was a fluke, North Country should erase all doubt." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Northfork (2003) |
"Northfork feels like the unedited dream sequence from the movie it might have been, if only there'd been someone to wake up from it." |
Geoff Pevere |
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