Tomato 2.5/4 |
Nacho Libre (2006) |
"Napoleon Dynamite's racism was unmistakable, Nacho Libre's less so, subverted as it is by Jack Black's comic humanism." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Naked Boys Singing (2007) |
"Naked Boys Singing! is the biggest waste of d**k since Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain." |
Paul Schrodt |
Tomato |
The Naked Kiss (1964) |
"It's Sirk-on-a-shoestring, and twice as cynical." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
The Naked Prey (1965) |
"Cornel Wilde's directorial career is ripe for rediscovery. This pure, relentless yarn is a great place to start." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Naked Prey (1965) |
"offers a vision of survival at its starkest, boiled down to physical endurance, reflexes, and the desperate need to keep ahead of the foe snapping at your heels." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Naked You Die |
"Naked is as naked dies." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Naked You Die |
"In practice it's a little more Stripped to Your Bra and Panties, You Run and Squeal and Maybe Get Gently Choked to Death As Though Your Trachea Were Made of Butter." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1/4 |
Naming Number Two (2007) |
"Naming Number Two peddles familial reconciliation while making one pine for familial annihilation." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Nana (2005) |
"The film is most impressive as that rarest of creatures: a crowd-pleaser with a genuinely artistic touch." |
Rob Humanick |
Splat 2/4 |
Nancy Drew (2007) |
"Nancy Drew is almost charming when she's out snooping in the boonies, but she doesn't make a whole lot of sense nosing around Hollywood wearing Bree Van De Kamp's hand-me-downs." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Nanny (1965) |
"A rather quiet, cautious thriller that gives Davis more room for characterization than most of her later films." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato |
The Nanny (1965) |
"Ultimately disappointing, but Davis gives Mary Poppins a run for her money." |
Dan Callahan |
Splat 2/4 |
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"Everyone gets a cute nickname, a means for this amateur anthropologist to protect the innocent and maintain some semblance of objectivity while advancing tired stereotypes of what it's like to be made in Manhattan." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nanny McPhee (2006) |
"En every way an exemplary children's film, but it's much more than that: at its best, it resembles the gently whimsical Ealing comedies of the '50s." |
Dan Callahan |
Splat .5/4 |
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) |
"For those who think there'e nothing funnier than yokels acting like idiots for 90 minutes straight." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Naqoyqatsi (2002) |
"Reggio and Glass put on an intoxicating show." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Narc (2002) |
"Carnahan works with a rough-hewn classicism that recalls the tenacity and resilience of Hollywood in its glory days." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato |
Narc (2002) |
"Joe Carnahan’s genre pic gets an equally nifty sound and video transfer on this DVD edition." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Nasanu naka (1932) |
"A silent mother-love melodrama whose stylistic crudities explicitly illustrate what, in the director's later work, is relegated to subtlety and subtext." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nathalie (2003) |
"Viva la anti-feminism!" |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002) |
"Like Slackers, Super Troopers and last year's Wet Hot American Summer, Van Wilder is nostalgic for the gross-out yarns of yesteryear." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
National Treasure (2004) |
"National Treasure knows how to keep things moving but I was more entranced by the DVD's interactive menus." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
National Treasure (2004) |
"A cornucopia of ridiculously over-the-top action, humor, and romance conceived in the Bruckheimer tradition." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) |
"Since Book of Secrets doesn't take its faux-intricate story seriously, there's no reason this review should either." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
The Nativity Story (2006) |
"Courtesy of Catherine Hardwicke, The Nativity has become the most boring story ever told." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat .5/4 |
Natural Born Killers (1994) |
"Natural Born Killers finds Stone throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks." |
Matt Noller |
Tomato |
Natural Born Killers (1994) |
"A solid DVD release of a terrible, terrible movie." |
Matt Noller |
Tomato 4/4 |
Nazarin (1958) |
"While the film itself remains a subtle attack on religious naivete, the director would never be as mindful of the possibilities of spiritual healing as he is here." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nearing Grace (2006) |
"Sucks to be Nearing Grace on the same week that Zerophilia also opens." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ned Kelly (2004) |
"Think Braveheart Down Under—an impossibly masturbatory, unilateral act of hero worship." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Neighbor 13 (2005) |
"The film isn't very good, but it's refreshing to see a director tell a story without the familiar noise of blinking lights and stringy-haired nymphets." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"Demme understands this genre intimately; he recognizes that the concert film requires more than just haphazardly pointing the camera at the musicians." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 4/5 |
Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) |
"A tell-tale Heart worth having." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Nekam Achat Mishtey Eynay (2005) |
"Avenge But One of My Two Eyes trades in irony with a capital I." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Nenette and Boni (1996) |
"A sibling drama of unsentimental urban grit and swooning lyricism." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato |
Nenette and Boni (1996) |
"Perhaps Denis's most approachable mix of humanism and erotic meditation." |
Bill Weber |
Splat 2/4 |
Never Again (2002) |
"Do you say "hi" to your lover when you wake up in the morning?" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat .5/4 |
Never Back Down (2008) |
"The ethical nitwittery of "fight so you don't have to fight again" and invocations of The Iliad in this context brazenly transform a dumb bone-cruncher into a putridly dissembling one." |
Bill Weber |
Splat 1/4 |
Never Been Thawed (2006) |
"Like a torturously long, slapdash joke delivered by a snarky Sunday school student determined to piss off his devout elders." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"Not only should DMX not be allowed to act but he also shouldn’t be allowed to rap on commentary tracks." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Never Die Alone (2004) |
"Never Die Alone discards logic and reason for a farcically overblown orgy of uninhibited sex, drugs and gaudy materialism." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 0/4 |
New in Town (2009) |
"Like the odious stepchild of Fargo, New in Town gleefully offers up citizens of rural, snowbound New Ulm, Minnesota as a collection of funny-speaking, Jesus-loving, tapioca-making misfits deserving of nothing less than outright mockery." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
A New Leaf (1971) |
"Blessed with a perpetual craggy hangdog, Matthau is May’s perfect comic foil." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 1/4 |
The New Twenty (2009) |
"There's something uniquely irritating about the kind of too-serious-for-its-own-good alternative-lifestyle drama subheading that Chris Mason Johnson's The New Twenty neatly falls under." |
Simon Abrams |
Tomato |
The New World (2005) |
"Pure bliss, Malick's incantatory New World suspends us in time--regardless of how long it runs." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
The New World (2005) |
"The exquisiteness of The New World and how it reveals itself to its audience is flabbergasting...like a heretofore unknown cave painting impeccably preserved except for a few spots here and there eroded by time and nature." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
New World Order (2009) |
"The directors never bother to delve into why these men need simple answers, and avoid complications at all costs." |
Lauren Wissot |
Splat 2/4 |
New York City Serenade (2009) |
"Possesses a poorly explored but fecund meta-analysis of juvenile semi-stardom that demands a more sensitive treatment." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Splat 2/4 |
New York Doll (2005) |
"Poves that Mormonism and makeup-adorned punk rock aren't oil and water entities." |
Nick Schager |
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