Tomato 3/4 |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"Ridiculous as it may sound, this is a comedy about a man whose good intentions lead him into temptation and out again. Viva Nacho!" |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"Roberts, bless her bubbly little heart, resolutely charges through the movie with a perkiness that ignores its lack of substance. Then again, this movie isn't about context. It's light, fluffy and fun." |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nanking (2007) |
"Nanking is grim but ultimately uplifting, a reminder that even in dangerous times, brave individuals can hold the line against barbarism." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"The unfaithful film adaptation so undermines the novel's spiky social satire that it constitutes some kind of aesthetic crime." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"Nanny McPhee casts a captivating spell." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"Calling this story about a quirky high-school student from a dysfunctional family who lives in a goofy small town a one-joke movie is exaggerating by a factor of 10." |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
NASCAR: The Imax Experience (2004) |
"NASCAR 3D: The Imax Experience provides an insider's look at what goes on at stock-car races, both on and off the track." |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
National Geographic - Forces of Nature (2005) |
"While the Hollywood movie cooked up its killer weather on special-effects computers, these are real." |
Jeff Strickler |
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National Security (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
National Treasure (2004) |
"The lighthearted, rocket-paced adventure doesn't have a shred of plausibility -- and it doesn't pretend to. But it has oodles of fun." |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"The film is baffling -- the scheme that links the conspirators throughout three centuries would flummox the Illuminati -- but as a sort of vacation scrapbook of the lovely places where the cast spent last summer, it's pleasant enough." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"The Nativity Story is refreshingly original, an inspiring version for our age and, maybe, for the ages." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Navigators (2003) |
"Loach's characters speak in a sometimes difficult Yorkie accent, but they tell a story anyone can understand." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Nazi Officer's Wife |
"A compelling survival drama despite the mundane telling." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nearing Grace (2006) |
"The characters are stereotypes, their situations are familiar and the outcome is predictable. But the whole thing is viewed from such a feel-good perspective that we're willing to overlook much of that." |
Jeff Strickler |
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The Negotiator (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeff Strickler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Neil Young - Greendale (2004) |
"It's dreadfully boring." |
Chris Riemenschneider |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"It will be hard for any Young devotee not to succumb to the music, as Demme turns the movie theater into a concert hall." |
Jeff Strickler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"You have had soup deeper than this film, and a referee should have been on hand to call foul on the acting." |
Colin Covert |
Splat |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"Arquette does what he can with his pitiful character. But the longer Paul drifts, the longer we find it hard to believe that he's still alive. In fact, we're kind of sorry he's still alive. The movie would be much better without him." |
Jeff Strickler |
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Neverland (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
New in Town (2009) |
"The film squeezes every ounce of sweet-tempered comic potential from brutal windchill, Lutheran reticence and white-bread cuisine." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2.5/4 |
New Suit (2002) |
"Doesn't have much new to say about Hollywood." |
Jeff Strickler |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The New World (2005) |
"Malick appears to consider this an epic tale, but beyond its 2-hour-plus length, the film never quite reaches the scale he's after." |
Jeff Strickler |
Splat 0.5/4 |
New York Minute (2004) |
"As sterile and devoid of personality as a mall parking lot." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Next (2007) |
"Next features Nicolas Cage as a clairvoyant who can see events before they occur. If anyone on the production team had similar abilities, they could have foreseen that the film was a folly in the making." |
Colin Covert |
Splat .5/4 |
Next Day Air (2009) |
"A fiasco. A flop. A failure's failure. Next Day Air aims low but still misses the target." |
Colin Covert |
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Next Friday (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeff Strickler |
- |
Nicholas Nickleby (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"One advantage that Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist has over the typical teen romantic comedy is a terrific soundtrack that perfectly matches the fleeting loyalties of teenage love." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Night at the Museum (2006) |
"Night at the Museum is a high-concept comedy that skimps on things such as plot and character development but holds nothing back when it comes to high-energy silliness. In other words, it's vintage Ben Stiller in his wacky mode." |
Jeff Strickler |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) |
"The sequel to the big family hit Night at the Museum struggles with a big creative challenge. The sense of wonderment you feel in seeing museum displays magically come to life is not as strong the second time around." |
Colin Covert |
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Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Night Listener (2006) |
"The Night Listener has flaws, particularly a double ending that raises more questions than it resolves, but it conjures a haunting mood of anxiety that settles around you like a shroud." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Night Watch (2005) |
"Goth thrill-junkies will probably get a giddy charge out of this overheated fantasy. The rest of us can have an equivalent experience by putting our brains in a blender and hitting puree." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) |
"The hippest of all holiday classics, the 1993 release rendered anew in 3-D format remains a postmodern three-ring circus of morbid humor, eye-popping puppet animation and show-stopping songs." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) |
"The story needs rage and poetry and red-blooded sensuality, and we get respectable stodginess." |
Colin Covert |
- |
Nightwatch (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeff Strickler |
Splat 1/4 |
Nim's Island (2008) |
"A slapdash amalgam of competing visual and storytelling styles, bizarre acting, egregious product placement (particularly for National Geographic) and negative stereotypes." |
Peter Schilling |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nine (2009) |
"Nine expires in every sluggish, graceless scene." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nine Queens (2002) |
"A slick and thoroughly enjoyable con-artist movie." |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato |
The Ninth Day (2005) |
"While the pacing is a bit slow, the story line is engrossing." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 4/4 |
No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"The film is as lean and mean as a barbed-wire necktie, darkly funny and much deeper than the average crime thriller." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
No End in Sight (2007) |
"Even dedicated news junkies will gain new understanding of a campaign with no end in sight." |
Colin Covert |
- |
No Looking Back (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeff Strickler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nobel Son (2008) |
"Like the worst of holiday quarrels, it's much more irritating than interesting, and by the end of it you'll be filled with as much seasonal cheer as Ebenezer Scrooge." |
Daniel Getahun |
Tomato |
Nobody Knows (2005) |
"A genuinely important film." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Noi (2004) |
"A better-than- average tale of teenage angst that balances its tone between sorrow and buoyant good cheer." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Nomi Song (2005) |
"Andrew Horn's film charts Nomi's remarkable rise, his brief cult fame and his untimely flameout in 1983 as one of the arts community's earliest AIDS fatalities." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Norbit (2007) |
"Norbit demonstrates that even when working with low-grade material, Murphy can be a superb actor." |
Colin Covert |
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