Naked Boys Singing (2007)

"Naked Boys live are a hoot. Frozen on celluloid, they're tacky."

Nancy Drew (2007)

"The film itself is more nice than good, but nice isn't the worst trait."

The Nanny Diaries (2007)

"The casting is all fine; everything else is pushy and out of joint."

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

"This is the sort of Sundance audience hit that doesn't necessarily travel."

Narc (2002)

"Narc is a gritty cop movie for people who like gritty cop movies."

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)

"For the most part, The Gold Diggers is not even chuckle-producing. At best, it might warm a cockle or two or provoke a bit of a smile."

National Security (2003)

"I wouldn't race out to see National Security, but it does give you exactly what you'd expect: yuks, explosions and brawling buddies rolling all over those overused L.A. freeways."

National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)

"All you want from a movie like this, really, is a little brainless fun, and it keeps holding out on you."

Neil Young - Greendale (2004)

"An odd but sometimes lovable little mixture of great rock 'n' roll and charmingly primitive filmmaking."

Never Again (2002)

"I doubt if the solution to the movie industry's ludicrous ageism is showing 50-year-olds acting like randy 20-year-olds."

Never Been Kissed (1999)

"Dumb plot and poor script!"

Never Die Alone (2004)

"Purports to be literate film noir but comes off more like the overwritten project of a film school kid who just memorized his textbook on the style."

New in Town (2009)

"New in Town is The Pajama Game without the songs, the laughs or the bare-knuckled realism."

The New World (2005)

"The film, which is superb on every technical and design level, has both greatness and fuzzy-headedness in it."

The Next Best Thing (2000)

"This movie remains full of high Hollywood cliches."

Nice Bombs (2007)

"A surprisingly warm first-person video diary, blending a series of reunions with relatives and footage of the bazaars, streets, homes and everyday perils of life in post-Saddam, mid-occupation and mid-chaos Iraq."

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

"Sollett works easily and well with Cera and Dennings, and lends a touch of awkward realism to what, from a screenwriting perspective, is pure formula."

Nicotina (2004)

"It arrests with violent bursts and anxious pauses until its three plots merge in a satisfying resolution; its laughs caught in my throat like smoker's cough."

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

"Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, is breezier than the first Museum, at least to me, which means in three years I'll be revising my opinion downward."

Night Watch (2005)

"Even though you couldn't call it a great science fiction movie, on the level of Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker it's often a great, heart-pumping, blow-you- to-the walls movie experience."

Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002)

"Cox offers plenty of glimpses at existing photos, but there are no movies of Nijinsky, so instead the director treats us to an aimless hodgepodge."

Nina's Tragedies (2005)

"Nina's Tragedies is full of gentle, labyrinthian turns, sly and sweet."

Nine Queens (2002)

"One of the most clever, most enjoyable thrillers in years."

The Ninth Day (2005)

"A film that strives for meaning and resonance but doesn't quite work."

No Country for Old Men (2007)

"As pure craftsmanship, No Country for Old Men is as good as we've ever gotten from Joel and Ethan Coen."