Splat C+ |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"Hess colors the film with his askew sensibility that twists the slapstick into an oddball realm of droll humor that favors the eccentric over the hilarious." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
Naked in Ashes (2005) |
"It idolizes the idea of spiritual purity without offering any insight into what it really means." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A- |
The Namesake (2007) |
"Mira Nair returns to her interests in class and immigrant life in this loving adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"[Director] Fleming is compelled to push for that contemporary upgrade and he fills the film with many airheaded moments that feel like outtakes from every other teen flick." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B- |
Nanking (2007) |
"A handsome documentary on a brutal subject, Nanking delves into the 1937 Japanese invasion of China and the atrocities committed in the attack..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"While the budding relationship between Annie and Grayer is sometimes heartwarming, the interactions between Mrs. X and her employee are frustrating." |
Meghan Peters |
Splat C |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"... a colorful and exuberant but by-the-numbers and fairly charm-free concoction that seems overly calculated to pander to the currently hot movie-market for kids' movies with magical British characters." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"Imagine a John Hughes teen comedy remade by Jim Jarmusch and dropped into the town that time forgot." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Naqoyqatsi (2002) |
"Like all abstract art, the film does not make this statement in an easily accessible way, and -- unless prewarned -- it would be very possible for a reasonably intelligent person to sit through its tidal wave of imagery and not get this vision at all." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Narc (2002) |
"Liotta is a hot prospect for this year's supporting-actor Oscar." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
NASCAR: The Imax Experience (2004) |
"Never as visually or viscerally thrilling as some might expect, but it still manages to be a fascinating study of a national phenomenon that has had very little impact in our part of the country." |
William Arnold |
Splat F |
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) |
"Priesler plays the whole thing as a flamboyant freak show, smacking the audience... with tasteless gags and grotesque extremes of human behavior and calling it humor." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) |
"Had it not wandered into aforementioned eclair territory, it could have been better than a discount video rental." |
Ellen Kim |
Tomato B- |
National Security (2003) |
"It's only a notch above the routine, and it obeys all the conventions of its tired formula, but it also tones the anarchy with a serious edge and it works a surprisingly effective vein of race-relations satire." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
National Treasure (2004) |
"Too dumb and improbable." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"The filmmakers have strived to tell their tale, which is part Scripture and part imagined, with the simplicity and sincerity of a Sunday school lesson, and, as far as I can see, it does not veer from tradition in a way that is likely to offend anyone." |
William Arnold |
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Naturally Native (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat C |
Nearing Grace (2006) |
"The dialogue is full of fortune cookie aphorisms and stilted literary phrases that were never meant to be spoken aloud." |
Bill White |
Splat C+ |
Neighbor 13 (2005) |
"Though it's rarely dull, first-time feature director Yasuo Inoue has a better eye for intriguing and unusual imagery than dramatic staging..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"Demme maintains visual interest by shuffling the stage positions of the musicians, and changing the lighting design for each song." |
Bill White |
Splat D |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"... spouts a hollow message of nonviolence while celebrating the brutal satisfaction of beating the crap out of someone." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato C+ |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"An incredibly violent and technically shoddy but undeniably absorbing black gangster movie." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
New Best Friend (2002) |
"... digs beyond the usual portrayals of good kids and bad seeds to reveal a more ambivalent set of characters and motivations." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato 9/10 |
The New Eve (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
The New Guy (2002) |
"... so disconnected you have to wonder if pages were lost on the way to the set." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
New in Town (2009) |
"Zellweger, despite her propensity to scrunch her face, has an easy chemistry with Connick that is unthreatening and enjoyable, and she's good at the physical comedy the role requires." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
New Suit (2002) |
"Velle ... brings a perceptive outsider's view to the world of contemporary Hollywood that catches all the nuances of hypocrisy." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
The New World (2005) |
"It's haunting and cathartic: a grand romantic vision of two lovers caught in the grip of a Darwinian culture clash, played out with the precision and power of a Greek myth." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
New York Minute (2004) |
"The film rests on a contrived and predictable plot." |
Winda Benedetti |
Splat D |
Next (2007) |
"Does nothing with its intriguing premise, and it's mostly just one more tedious and progressively dumb collection of Hollywood action clichés." |
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Splat C |
The Next Best Thing (2000) |
"Madonna's noticeably weak, strained and unconvincing." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Next Friday (1999) |
"Next Friday, after its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
"The new film version of Nicholas Nickleby, which was previously filmed in 1947 and famously adapted into an 8 1/2-hour theatrical event by the Royal Shakespeare Company in the '80s, continues this winning streak." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"Let's call this High Fidelity Nano. It's a little bit less in every way, lighter and cuter than its archetypal elder, but it might just fit your present lifestyle all the better." |
Travis Nichols |
Tomato C+ |
Nico and Dani (2001) |
"A modest but frank look at adolescent lust, both heterosexual and homosexual." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
Nicotina (2004) |
"The blunt attempts at dark humor merely underscore the film's cynicism..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Night at the Museum (2006) |
"Out to impress and delight a family audience with the pageantry of human and natural history, and that's a surprisingly worthy ambition for a Hollywood comedy." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
The Night Listener (2006) |
"The script (by Maupin and Terry Anderson) ends up being a shaggy-dog story that diffuses its suspense along the way by dramatizing scenes the viewer has the advantage of seeing but Gabriel doesn't." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Night Watch (1973) |
"The familiar ideas are refreshed by the intriguing shift in culture and setting and the characters sketched in shades of gray." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Night Watch (2005) |
"The familiar ideas are refreshed by the intriguing shift in culture and setting and the characters sketched in shades of gray." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"Despite the basic likability of the stars, that crucial chemistry is not sizzling or even hugely compelling, their situation seems slightly contrived and the movie is somehow not half as emotionally involving as it needs to be." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Nim's Island (2008) |
"Such an air of dumbness hovers over the movie, and it's all played so broadly that nothing about it is remotely believable." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
Nine Lives (2005) |
"Rodrigo Garcia may be the closest thing we have to a master short-story artist working on the big screen." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Nine Queens (2002) |
"While Bielinsky doesn't bring anything new to the table, he has a smartly engineered scheme and a good poker face, and he's mastered the essential art of misdirection." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
The Ninth Day (2005) |
"The dark, rotting interiors and sunless winter skies create a festering atmosphere of unexpiated guilt as Kremer ponders the question of how a decent man is to navigate the rivers of hell." |
Bill White |
Splat C+ |
The Ninth Gate (1999) |
"Suspenseless and fairly ludicrous." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"... strong, evocative storytelling pared to the bone and braced with a sensibility perfectly matched to the material." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
No End in Sight (2007) |
"First-time writer-producer director Charles Ferguson is a noted think-tank scholar who is less interested in casting partisan blame than figuring out just exactly how such a colossal debacle came about." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
No Man's Land (2001) |
"It's undeniably riveting." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
No Reservations (2007) |
"A sumptuous celebration of the joy of food. Scene after scene is punctuated with tantalizing glimpses of haut-cuisine delicacies and mouth-watering talk of food. My stomach growled all through the movie." |
William Arnold |
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