Splat 2.5/4 |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"A little too cute and mushy to exploit [Black's] driven, full-blast talent." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"A recent book on the Nancy Drew mysteries notes that Nancy came along in 1930, just as 'the first tampons went on sale.' News to Nancy in 2007? Her love life remains virtuously naive, and Betty Boop still thinks she's a square." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"Even those of us not pining nostalgically for Mary Poppins can feel the slump of a long, downward trajectory. Nanny McPhee plops." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"It's a vacuum-packed Idaho spud of a world, but funny." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Narc (2002) |
"One of the harshest cop stories ever filmed." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) |
"While some of the pranks in National Lampoon's Van Wilder are more extreme than we've seen in There's Something About Mary or the American Pie movies, this film has enough heart to balance it out." |
Angela Carroll |
Splat 2/4 |
National Treasure (2004) |
"The plot is all breathless riffs and jolly twists, and even Cage looks strung-out." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"How moved you are by this holiday fare depends, beyond basic human empathy, on your piety (or nostalgia for childhood readings and Nativity plays)." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"The most memorable and enjoyable concert movie since Stop Making Sense." |
George Varga |
Splat 2/4 |
Never Again (2002) |
"Both awful and appealing." |
David Elliott |
Splat 0/4 |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"Never Die Alone makes each viewer die alone, but shared laughter with other customers may forge a death-pact bond." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The New World (2005) |
"A Terrence Malick movie -- only four features in 33 years -- is such a visual splurge that you feel the film and its coffee-table book have arrived in unison." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
New York Minute (2004) |
"Veteran observers of the small and famous may watch Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in New York Minute, and think: Pia Zadora, even smaller, but doubled." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Next (2007) |
"Not overly ambitious, Next nonetheless keeps you thinking, guessing and entertained." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat |
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
"Madonna has little charisma as a movie performer." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Next Friday (1999) |
"Not a giggle, not a smile nor a smirk came out or across my face." |
Jerry McCormick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
"When you boil such a crammed and lavish book to this length, you are left with a pinched, Viewer's Digest version." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Nicotina (2004) |
"Director Hugo Rodriguez and writer Martin Salinas must have thought they were on a post-Tarantino edge. Their only edge is the razor slicing open the hoodlum." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
"Concise, elegant, a tad scary, this is a treat for Halloween." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nine Lives (2005) |
"The degree of our interest may vary, but Garcia maintains a very assured control with his fine, entrenched cast." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nine Queens (2002) |
"At its sliming, sidewinding best, Nine Queens rivals those modern beauties about sneak-cheats, House of Games, The Swindle and The Grifters." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The Ninth Gate (1999) |
"The movie is a kicky college course in demonology, whereas The Blair Witch Project seemed to be a truant from horror kindergarten, one with poor prospects of graduating to The Sixth Sense." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
No Reservations (2007) |
"From Mostly Martha to Mainly Comfort Food -- by way of the Hollywood microwave." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nobody Knows (2005) |
"If it feels rather long at 141 minutes, it's hard to figure what could be viably removed from this absorbing film." |
David Elliott |
Splat 0/4 |
Norbit (2007) |
"Norbit is not a thriller, action film or suspense story. Still, it achieves the assassination of comedy." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
North Country (2005) |
"Caro is both subtle and a deck-stacker." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Not Another Teen Movie (2001) |
"While not Oscar-worthy stuff, Not Another Teen Movie does make the laughter grade." |
Jerry McCormick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) |
"Mol and Harron neither put her down nor hoist her up. Rather than breaking Bettie Page into voyeuristic parts, they leave her mysteriously complete." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Notorious C.H.O. The Movie (2002) |
"Audiences who appreciate extremely raunchy humor will find the giggles flowing, but remember to bring the tissue, because you'll laugh until you cry." |
Jerry McCormick |
Tomato |
Notting Hill (1999) |
"Grant's sly, boyish, infallibly halting charm makes him, if not the new Cary Grant, unbeatably the new David Niven." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Novocaine (2001) |
"Writer and debut director Atkins' cocky variant on the noir setpiece." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 4/4 |
Nowhere in Africa (2003) |
"This very fine movie is neither tourism nor special pleading, and its emotions are impeccably developed." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
The Number 23 (2007) |
"If there's any real fun to be had at all with The Number 23, it's in post-op dismantling; so little of it, in retrospect, makes any sense." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat |
Nurse Betty (2000) |
"Apart from a few punchy chuckles, Nurse Betty is the drag end of a wan hipness that lacks juice and focus." |
David Elliott |
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