| Nacho Libre [DVD] |
Working again with his wife/co-screenwriter Jerusha, as well as indie scribe Mike White (Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl), Hess has crafted an obliquely comic ode to underdog sports ...
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| Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear [DVD] |
Any director will tell you that how a character is first introduced in a movie is of the utmost
importance. So, it says a lot that Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), the irrepressibly inane
police ...
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| Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult [DVD] |
"Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" opens with what is perhaps the most inspired
sequence in the entire series: an outrageous parody of the shoot-out in the Chicago train
station from Brian De ...
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| Naked [DVD] |
David Thewlis’ portrayal of Johnny is one of the great screen performances, particularly in that unsettling niche category of characters who we should loathe on every level, yet are so intriguing ...
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| Nanny McPhee |
Wrapped up humorously in mayhem and mischief, Nanny McPhee tells the story of the Brown brood, a gaggle of seven out-of-control kids whose widowed father (Colin Firth) is desperately looking ...
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| Narc |
Writer/director Joe Carnahan has a generic, unimposing name, the kind you would expect to see in the credits of a straight-to-video slugfest. And, in some ways, that is exactly what his sophomore ...
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| Nashville [DVD] |
When Robert Altman's "Nashville" was released in 1975, there had never been a film quite
like it. At the time, Altman was already known as a critically celebrated, countercultural
force with the war ...
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| National Lampoon's Van Wilder |
Upon finding out that he and his other fraternity brothers have been permanently kicked off campus, John Belushi's Bluto utters, in all sincerity, the single best line in all of National ...
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| National Treasure |
National Treasure is another product of the partnership of Walt Disney and uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, but it doesn't have the edginess or wit of Pirates of the Carribbean: The Curse ...
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| Naughty Girl (Cette sacreé gamine) [DVD] |
No one will ever accuse Brigitte Bardot of being a particularly great actress, but she had the rare kind of screen presence that lifted even the slightest movie to heights it otherwise would never ...
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| Near Dark [DVD] |
Ever since its brief theatrical run in the fall of 1987 and its subsequent rise to cult movie status through home video and pay cable, Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark has been dubbed repeatedly ...
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| Network |
The TV station, the fictional Union Broadcasting Corporation (UBS), wants to fire him immediately, but Beale somehow talks them into letting him go on the air once more to apologize. However, ...
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| Never Been Kissed |
This is the situation 25-year-old Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore), a successful copy editor at "The Chicago Sun-Times," finds herself in when she is handed her first undercover reporting assignment: ...
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| Never Say Never Again [Blu-Ray] |
Never Say Never Again owes its existence to a lawsuit over James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s 1961 novel Thunderball, which was produced as a film in 1965. Fleming’s novel was ...
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| New York in the 50's |
Betsy Blankenbaker's documentary New York in the 50's is not, as the titlesuggests, so much about a particular time and place as it is about a specific group oflikeminded people who, for a few ...
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| Nicholas Nickleby |
Charles Dickens’ third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, weighs in at well over 800 pages, and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s famous stage version ran for eight and a half hours. Thus, it is one ...
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| Nico and Dani
(Krámpack) |
Nico and Dani (Krámpack) tells the story of the sexual coming-of-age oftwo 17-year-old boys. This is, of course, a topic that has been worked over in so manydifferent variations ...
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| Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) [DVD] |
Of all the films made about the Holocaust, Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) is quite possibly the most moving and thought-provoking, which is all the more impressive ...
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| Night and the City [DVD] |
Night and the City is one of the quintessential film noir, not only because its inky chiaroscuro visuals, but because of its gripping downward spiral of a narrative that keeps the ...
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| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian |
When the film opens, Stiller’s Larry Daley has hung up his flashlight for a lucrative career inventing and selling gadgets on home shopping channels. Now quite rich and respectable, he returns to ...
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| Night of the Creeps [DVD] |
Dekker wastes no time getting into the story, opening the film inside a massive spaceship manned by gun-toting, baby-bodied aliens whose mouths are, for budgetary reasons, frozen in a perpetually ...
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| Night of the Demons [DVD] |
The story takes place over one night, where a group of 10 high school kids—none of whom look like they’re in high school and none of whom would actually hang out together if they were—gather ...
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| Night of the Living Dead [DVD] |
Night of the Living Dead reinvented the American horror film. Prior to its release in 1968, horror movies were primarily filled with rubber monsters and tin-foil flying saucers, relegated to ...
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| Night on Earth [DVD] |
The film opens in Los Angeles with a tough, chain-smoking young cabbie named Corky (Winona Ryder) who looks like she's 12, but dreams of being a mechanic. Her fare is a cell-phone-wielding, ...
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| Night Train to Munich [DVD] |
Despite its similarities to Hitchcock’s classic, Night Train to Munich is also very much its own film and testament to the skillful manner in which British filmmakers were able to produce ...
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| Ninja Assassin |
Nevertheless, Kosugi, who plays the heavy in Ninja Assassin, has to step aside for the younger generation, which is here embodied in the rock-hard abs and rock-star locks of Rain, a Korean ...
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| Nixon |
Hopkins finds just the right balance that shows the bitterness and the paranoia of Nixon's character without making him unapproachable to the audience and wholly unsympathetic. If this were not the ...
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| No Country for Old Men [DVD] |
At its core, No Country is an extended chase film that begins when an ordinary man named Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin)--who doesn’t seem to be a particularly good nor bad person--is out ...
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| No End in Sight |
This is not new news, but the manner in which Ferguson lays out the facts maintains the power to shock and awe, not to mention anger and incense. Yet, the power of No End in Sight is that ...
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| Norbit |
Ever since the success of Coming to America (1988), Murphy has gravitated toward vehicles that have allowed him to play multiple characters (often buried in make-up and latex), an art he ...
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| North by Northwest |
The movie, as you might have guessed by now, is "North by Northwest," and it is one of Hitchcock's most masterfully sublime films. Sitting chronologically between Hitchcock's two undisputed ...
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| North Country |
Josie is unable to find a good-paying job until she runs into an old friend, Glory (Frances McDormand), who works at the local mine. Working there, Josie would be able to make six times what she ...
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| Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens [DVD] |
Nosferatu was an unauthorized reworking of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, which single-handedly revived the myth of the blood-sucking vampire. The film evokes a grim moodiness from ...
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| Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht [DVD] |
Dreadful is one of those words in the English language that has virtually lost its original meaning. Now used commonly to describe something that is "terrible" or "bad" ("That was a ...
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| Not of This World (Fuori dal Mondo) |
What makes Giuseppe Piccioni's "Not of This World" ("Fuori dal Mondo") such an engaging, moving film is the way it develops its characters and alters our perception of them without our knowing it. ...
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| Notes on a Scandal |
In fact, the screenwriter behind Notes on a Scandal, British playwright Patrick Marber, has more than a few awards under his belt, as does Zoe Heller, the writer whose novel Marber adapted. ...
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| Notorious [DVD] |
One of the things that makes Notorious "the very quintessence of Hitchcock" is how effectively it creates an exhilarating surface of romance and intrigue that barely disguises its true ...
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| Notting Hill [DVD] |
Notting Hill is about a mere mortal who falls in love with a goddess. Well, not quite a "goddess," but the closest thing we have these days: a $15-million-a-picture movie star. And what ...
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| Nurse Betty |
"And this is all because of a soap opera," the professional killer laments to the young woman.By this point in Neil LaBute's black comedy "Nurse Betty," several people are already dead,and the ...
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| Nutty Professor II: The Klumps |
Near the end of "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps," there is a scene in which the titularcharacter, the lovable, overweight scientist Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy), is sitting on theedge of a fountain ...
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