Splat 2/4 |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"The humor in this second feature by Jared Hess, the director of Napoleon Dynamite, has been demoted from sophomoric to juvenile, and the age requirement for its enjoyment has dropped accordingly." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Namesake (2007) |
"Because the film has a lot of ground to cover in a short time, it offers linear, literal and sometimes stilted representations of the book's elegant interior voice." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"[Nancy Drew's] spunky resourcefulness is given an exaggerated, tongue-in-cheek treatment by director/co-writer Andrew Fleming. But it's all done with affection and respect." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"The Nanny Diaries ultimately feels emotionally true to itself." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"Nanny McPhee is a rare family film that manages to be funny without being gross, and heartwarming without being cloying." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Tomato 3/4 |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"The slow burn and deadpan dumbness of Napoleon Dynamite is a perfect fit for its minimalist aesthetic." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Narc (2002) |
"In both style and story, Narc reinvigorates a tired genre with brute force." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 3/4 |
National Geographic - Forces of Nature (2005) |
"Puts audiences extremely close to a series of deadly disasters of the type most of us just read about." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
National Geographic - Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 1/4 |
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) |
"For those who need proof that the National Lampoon brand of humor ain't what it used to be, National Lampoon's Gold Diggers does more than illustrates how far the mighty have fallen." |
Mack Bates |
Splat 0/4 |
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) |
"Van Wilder brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'comedy gag.' At least one scene is so disgusting that viewers may be hard pressed to retain their lunch." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2/4 |
National Security (2003) |
"The mildly amusing buddy/action comedy is more over-the-top Lawrence fare." |
Mack Bates |
Splat 2/4 |
National Treasure (2004) |
"Despite an interesting premise and a decent cast, the movie swings randomly between too much explanation and not enough, between simplistic cliche and inscrutable babble." |
Gemma Tarlach |
Splat |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"A film that's less about academic research than it is about breaking and entering." |
Graham Killeen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"At a time when secular celebrations, including most films, have redefined the holiday as a meaningless and generic act of consumerism, The Nativity Story reclaims its roots as a story of sacrifice and celebration." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Neil Young - Greendale (2004) |
"The ceaseless 4/4 lumber of Young's perennial backing band, Crazy Horse, combined with the aggressive grunginess of the imagery, bespeaks commitment, and a sense of purpose." |
Kevin John Bozelka |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"A work of dreamlike eloquence, that, like Young's music, is both spare and rich." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"In lieu of character development we get musical montages, and the film is sliced and diced more than all of Sweeney Todd's victims combined." |
Mack Bates |
Splat |
Never Been Kissed (1999) |
"Barrymore's acting looks disorganized and undisciplined." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"Dickerson's seductive realization and DMX's chillingly detached performance give this subpar variation on culturally apocalyptic themes an amoral plausibility." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The New Guy (2002) |
"Everyone connected to this movie seems to be part of an insider clique, which tends to breed formulaic films rather than fresh ones." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
New in Town (2009) |
"It's all predictable yet comfy. If you're looking for lighthearted entertainment, you'll find it here." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The New World (2005) |
"The New World could be dismissed as romantic hokum. However, Malick's elegiac sensitivity to historic context and collateral circumstances turns you always hurt the one you love into an epitaph for the ages." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
New York Doll (2005) |
"In the end, it is hard to not feel that God does work in mysterious ways, if the life of Arthur 'Killer' Kane is any example." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
New York Minute (2004) |
"The only thing missing is a laugh track." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
New York, I Love You (2009) |
"Even if you're a post-World Series Yankees-hater, it's hard not to love the New York in New York, I Love You." |
Chris Foran |
Splat 2/4 |
Next (2007) |
"The torpid Next may actually trump Paycheck as the worst film based on a story by the late, highly regarded, science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
"Delivers a pro-family message with a twist." |
Nick Carter |
Splat |
Next Friday (1999) |
"About as deep as an empty wading pool." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
"McGrath's Nicholas Nickleby is never very complex, but it is snappy and entertaining in a way that feels true to Dickens' love of a ripping yarn." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"Satisfying for the heart, definitely, but the head is left wanting." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Tomato 3/4 |
Night at the Museum (2006) |
"Entertaining enough that kids might not even mind the history lessons along the way." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Night Listener (2006) |
"The Night Listener, based on a real event in the life of novelist-turned-screenwriter Armistead Maupin, is a tranquil and alluring little thriller that makes up in earnestness what it lacks in surprises." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Night Watch (2005) |
"Its spectacle alone is worthy of a look, and the surprisingly powerful third act bodes well for the franchise's future." |
Piet Levy |
Splat 1/4 |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"Nights in Rodanthe, the latest screen adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks story, is a picture smothered in syrupy excess." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nim's Island (2008) |
"Nim's Island is funny when it needs to be, serious when it's required and fantastical throughout." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nine Lives (2005) |
"In the end, all of the pieces in Nine Lives fit together perfectly. If one story doesn't quite resonate for you, the next one likely will in this small but beautiful film." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nine Queens (2002) |
"You may think you have figured out the con and the players in this debut film by Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky, but while you were thinking someone made off with your wallet." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1/4 |
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"Unfortunately, uninteresting characters, disjointed storytelling and an unbearable lull in the action cut Ninja Assassin off at its knees. It's the viewers who will beg for mercy here." |
Stanley A. Miller II |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ninth Day (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat |
The Ninth Gate (1999) |
"Flat dialogue, overly long scenes, and a too-hazy story make The Ninth Gate a near-complete letdown." |
Nick Carter |
Tomato 4/4 |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"This stark and grimly violent tale of humankind's insignificance in the presence of a force it is helpless to control or predict is a morality tale of existential proportions -- and with contemporary implications." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
No End in Sight (2007) |
"Charles Ferguson holds this fact to be self-evident: that the chaos in Iraq is the direct result of a handful of bad policy decisions made very early in the war." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
No Man's Land (2001) |
"In this expertly calibrated debut, Tanovic charts the ebb and flow of these events, which began in a fog and end in a Pyrrhic tie, as a global ripple that is everyone's business." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
No Reservations (2007) |
"What the film lacks in substance it more than makes up for in style." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nobody Knows (2005) |
"While this could be the stuff of tabloid fodder at the one extreme or family fare uplift at the other, it is actually an observational meditation on childhood lost with universal applications." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Norbit (2007) |
"An uneven comedy about a milquetoast named Norbit who marries Rasputia, a woman so large she'd start a fire if she wore corduroy pants." |
Meg Jones |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
North Country (2005) |
"An earnest yet powerful cautionary tale of scarred and strip-mined lives, and how they are restored." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Northfork (2003) |
"Beware of smarty-pants filmmakers run amok in small-town America." |
Kevin John Bozelka |
Splat 2/4 |
Not Easily Broken (2009) |
"Henson, in a role that could easily have degenerated into an angry-black-woman caricature, is better than the material deserves." |
Mack Bates |
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