Splat 2/4 |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"High concept still fails without writers filling in the blank spots, and 'Jack Black in wrestling tights' is funny for about as long as the trailer you've already seen." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Naked in Ashes (2005) |
"Does so much of what we want from documentary -- it teaches us new ways that lives can be lived. And religion or no, that always expands the spirit." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"A refreshingly kind and calm PG film that no one will be ashamed to see." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"A winning tale of naughty children in need of love and the mysterious governess who comes to their aid." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"Has a sweet momentum." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
National Treasure (2004) |
"Laudable, at times inventive." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"The movie itself is not a miracle. But it's working with pretty good material." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Neil Young - Greendale (2004) |
"It's both too obscure and too obvious to be a very good film." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"Like its troubadour, Heart of Gold is smart and generous with its seeming simplicity." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1/4 |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"It's hard to imagine a more disturbingly woman-hating movie than Never Die Alone." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
New Suit (2002) |
"Velle takes a high-concept script from Craig Sherman and makes an enjoyable -- if disappointingly shallow -- coming- of-age story set in Tinseltown." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
The New Twenty (2009) |
"The director and co-writer Ishmael Chawla never make their characters venal." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The New World (2005) |
"The New World is a poetic force at once wrenching and soothing." |
Michael Booth |
Splat |
New York Minute (2004) |
"Put the blame on a script that maims the movie's middling intentions by playing New York City's ethnic vibrancy as either obvious joke or more obvious menace." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
"When one of an alleged romantic movie's principal actors is basically just reading lines, it doesn't do much for chemistry." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 1/4 |
Next Day Air (2009) |
"Stripped of f-bombs and b-words, Blair Cobb's screenplay could make a fortune- cookie threat. "You will see a bad movie today."" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"Director Peter Sollett brings the authentic observation that worked wonders in his debut, Finding Victor Vargas." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Night at the Museum (2006) |
"Though far less ambitious than Jurassic Park, Night at the Museum is also far less terrifying than Jumanji. It is happy where it is, and the audience I saw it with seemed to appreciate that." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Night Watch (2005) |
"Night Watch was one of the most popular movies ever released in Russia. That just proves there's no accounting for taste, in film or in human sacrifice." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007) |
"Nina's Heavenly Delights hints at better-simmered versions of similar dishes." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nine (2009) |
"Nine is, if not a grand work, terrifically tasty eye and ear candy. Two numbers -- from somewhat unexpected quarters -- are worth the price of admission alone." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nine Queens (2002) |
"This is a fun and lively movie, the first of two heralding the arrival of the suave, seductive and slightly forlorn actor Darin to American audiences." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Ninth Day (2005) |
"It just feels like too much over too little." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 4/4 |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"This movie is that stunning." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
No End in Sight (2007) |
"No End in Sight makes one thing clear: Were it not so bloody, the war in Iraq would be destined to become a case study in the nation's business schools." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
No Reservations (2007) |
"No Reservations may not be grand eats, but it is tasty." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nobody Knows (2005) |
"Kore-eda has an astonishing talent for making us feel the same emotional aches as the kids." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat .5/4 |
Norbit (2007) |
"This borderline-PG-13 comedy demands the sort of sociological scrutiny that often has the moviegoer looking for a fun night out rolling her eyes. And granting Norbit consideration feels like swinging a sledgehammer at a microbe." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 4/4 |
North Country (2005) |
"North Country is a relentlessly discomforting movie. Nowhere does it let you settle into the lush cushions of a typical Hollywood entertainment" |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Northfork (2003) |
"It is impossible to describe all the rich layers of Northfork, clearly an exhausting labor of love for the Polish brothers who wrote, produced, directed and star in the mystical movie." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 1/4 |
The Notebook (2004) |
"One of the shallowest movies in recent memory." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 4/4 |
Notes on a Scandal (2006) |
"The writers and the actors have just enough sympathy for their characters to keep Notes from deteriorating into a comedy of horrible manners." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Nothing But the Truth (2008) |
"Writer-director Lurie makes dramas that whole-headedly engage ethical quandaries yet dodge easy judgments." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008) |
"Beyond the movie's seasonal familiarities of resentment and reconciliation are plenty of sweet-funny details of Latino life." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Notorious (2009) |
"Notorious, directed by George Tillman Jr. with a sentimental touch, seems torn." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) |
"Astute -- even frisky -- as it is, Notorious Bettie Page never shakes being enamored of the mystery of Page." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Notting Hill (1999) |
"Very funny!" |
Steven Rosen |
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Nowhere (1997) |
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Tomato |
Nowhere in Africa (2003) |
"The film has the glorious sweep of an epic." |
Vic Vogler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Number 23 (2007) |
"Newcomer Fernley Phillips' screenplay eventually binds itself into too tight a knot. But it also has some admirable ambitions about family, responsibility, memory." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Nurse Betty (2000) |
"Despite some good acting, interesting illusion-vs.-reality plot scenarios and subtle humor. It just doesn't jell well." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat |
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) |
"Nutty II is too willing to sacrifice our identification with him to go for flatulence, poop and erection jokes." |
Steven Rosen |
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