Tomato |
Nadja (1994) |
"This offbeat horror item works much better as a dreamy mood piece with striking poetic images and as a semicomic appreciation of a few quintessential low-budget actors than as straight-ahead storytelling." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The Naked City (1948) |
"A first-rate police thriller." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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The Naked Dawn (1955) |
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Dave Kehr |
Splat |
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) |
"A feeble sequel." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) |
"Silly enough to make you laugh sometimes in spite of yourself -- at least if you're feeling like a little boy." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) |
"Not quite up to Airplane! or Top Secret!, but there are still laughs aplenty." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
The Naked Jungle (1954) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
The Naked Prey (1965) |
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Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
The Naked Spur (1952) |
"This 1953 film has Janet Leigh in jeans, beautiful location shooting (and Technicolor cinematography) in the Rockies, and some of the most intense psychological warfare to be found in [director Anthony] Mann's angular and anguished oeuvre." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The Namesake (2007) |
"Connecting these two stories is a profound sense of identity being passed from one generation to the next, as the power of a great culture is personalized in a father's love for his son." |
J. R. Jones |
Tomato |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"The postmodernist evocations of the past (roughly the 50s through the 80s) are a charming mishmash, delivered with wit and style." |
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Nancy Goes to Rio (1950) |
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Dave Kehr |
- |
The Nanny (1965) |
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Splat |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"Wealthy New Yorkers don't often get skewered as mercilessly as they do in this comedy by writing and directing duo Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, but the audacity turns out to be deceptive and formulaic." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Nanook of the North (1922) |
"Flaherty wasn't much of an ethnologist -- he routinely staged scenes for his camera and insisted that his subjects return to traditions they'd abandoned generations before -- yet he was a master dramatist." |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Napoleon (1927) |
"Apart from the fireworks the film is blocky, arrhythmic, and resolutely superficial." |
Dave Kehr |
- |
Napoleon (1995) |
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Tomato |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"For most of its length this delivers a steady stream of uncomfortable gut laughs." |
J. R. Jones |
Splat |
Narc (2002) |
"As a director Carnahan definitely has the goods... Unfortunately the script is your basic renegade-cop narrative, with the usual hoo-ha about justice versus the law." |
J. R. Jones |
- |
The Narrow Margin (1952) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Nashville (1975) |
"A rare and puzzling movie: beautiful and cruel, passionate but strangely shallow." |
Don Druker |
Tomato 4/4 |
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) |
"Ultimately [director] Burnett offers a remarkable gift: an intelligent sense of relativity. As Woodard's narration puts it, 'For a nation unable to come to terms with the legacy of slavery, Nat Turner remains a troublesome property.'" |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Nate and Hayes (1983) |
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Dave Kehr |
Splat |
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) |
"While the low comedy is undeniably effective, the film leaves behind a bad taste of snobbery and petty meanness." |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) |
"Nothing's quite so painful as failed comedy, and this atrocity is equivalent to a compound fracture." |
Hank Sartin |
Tomato |
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) |
"Despite plenty of gross-out gags and dumb slapstick bits, the careful viewer can occasionally detect some acrid and original satire in this 1983 film." |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"Leave it to coproducer Jerry Bruckheimer to revive the Indiana Jones cycle without the period setting, the camp elements, or Spielberg's efficiency; director Jon Turteltaub just plods along." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Native Land (1942) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Native Son (1950) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider) makes an appropriately soulful Mary, and the movie's most engaging scenes involve her mortified parents and mystified husband, Joseph (Oscar Isaac), trying to come to terms with her miraculous pregnancy." |
J. R. Jones |
Splat |
The Natural (1984) |
"I've just about had it with directors who use the mythic mode as an alibi for unshaded characterizations, simpleminded plotting, and swells of artificial emotionality." |
Dave Kehr |
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Naughty Girl (1958) |
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Naughty Marietta (1935) |
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Dave Kehr |
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The Navigator (1921) |
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Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Nayak: the Hero (1966) |
"Satyajit Ray's 1966 feature comes at the tail end of his early realist period, which included most of the films that won him his reputation in the West." |
Pat Graham |
Splat |
Nazarin (1958) |
"It lacks his brilliant wit and seems much less adventurous than his 60s masterpieces." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Near Dark (1987) |
"This is on the whole a striking directorial debut, at once scary and erotic, with lots of sidelong touches in the casting, direction, and script." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (1995) |
"It's one sign of Sautet's success that, though he presents neither character as especially admirable or exceptional, he makes us care about them a great deal." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Nemesis 2 (1994) |
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The Neon Bible (1996) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
Network (1976) |
"Chayefsky was apparently serious about much of this shrill, self-important 1976 satire about television, interlaced with bile about radicals and pushy career women, and so were some critics at the time." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Nevada Smith (1966) |
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Splat |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"Jeff Wadlow directed this exploitation flick, which seems designed for students on spring break." |
Andrea Gronvall |
Tomato |
Never Been Kissed (1999) |
"Drew Barrymore’s virtuoso performance smooths over the plot holes." |
Lisa Alspector |
Tomato |
Never Cry Wolf (1983) |
"The film is still memorable for its compassion, commitment, and unexpected humor, qualities that go a long way toward tempering the ecological didacticism of the screenplay." |
Dave Kehr |
- |
Never on Sunday (1960) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Never Say Never Again (1983) |
"Without absolute conviction, no action film can survive: if there's no belief, there's no danger." |
Dave Kehr |
- |
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988) |
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Splat |
New Best Friend (2002) |
"A dull, generic title for a dull, generic film." |
Sergio Mims |
- |
The New Centurions (1972) |
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