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Nacho Libre Tony Pisarenkov   Regal Cinemas, Bethesda, MD   04 July 2006 Sometimes, in your life, you wear stretchy pants.

Naqoyqatsi Steve Gadd   Cineplex Odeon Inner Circle 3   16 November 2002 The conclusion to Godfrey Reggio's 'Qatsi' trilogy. This installment had very little of the arresting timelapse imagery of natural beauty and industrial activity that made 'Koyaanisqatsi' such a brilliant niche film. The Phillip Glass score was just as trance-inducing, however. The opening montage of beautifully decayed architecture was cool, as were the scenes of athletes in slo-mo, nuclear blasts, and x-ray video. There may be a message in there somewhere, too.

National Treasure Mike Gadd   Apple Blossom Mall theater   27 November 2004 Not a horrible movie, but not something you walk out of with any great inspiration. Sort of like a 'DaVinci Code' for beginners. I didn't care for Jon Voight's one dimensional old man. Nick Cage didn't bring anything extra to the set.

National Treasure Steve Gadd   DVD   18 July 2005 Basically an inferior remake of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." While it doesn't commit the mortal sin of inflicting boredom, some of the entertainment comes in predicting the plot turns and criticizing the corniness. Some of the jargon was delicious: homing in on a shipwreck in the arctic wilds, they don't refer to the GPS, but a "directional needle."

National Treasure Ray Hunley   Netflix DVD   27 July 2005 Cage chases clues, chick, cache. Cliched and corny, but not dull.

New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking Julie Gephart   Mysteriously free HBO   01 February 2003 I really loved this book as a kid. The movie, however, sucked so much that I think it created a vortex in the corner of my living room.

Newsies Julie Gephart   Mysteriously free HBO   02 February 2003 I was thinking of an entirely different movie when I recorded this, and I certainly was not expecting nubile young dancing boys in a musical. Anyway, this truish story was about newspaper delivery boys who went on strike in old New York and started a mini-revolution in child labor industries.

Nicholas Nickleby A Bennett   Owned DVD   23 February 2004 Is it wrong to blame a film for insufficiencies inherent in its source material (in this case, Dickens)? The titular character changes not one whit, making any forward motion only that of changes in geography (both landscape and character). The good endure, the bad repent not. Goodness triumphs, if only by sheer stick-to-it-ness. We never fear a moment for the hero's corruption, we never fear for a moment that Christopher Plummer will turn from his evil, evil ways. "You cannot stain a black coat," Plummer tells us. And indeed, in Dickens' world, neither can you stain a white. (Harsh words, yes. But a little tension would have made a good film better.)

Nico Icon Tony Pisarenkov   DVD   14 March 2003 An excellent documentary on Nico (nee Krista Paffgen), the sometime lead singer of the Velvet Underground and an habituee of Andy Warhol's Factory in its heyday. She was perhaps the most underappreciated influence on the world of Goth and a relentless perpetuator of Left Bank bohemian ideals.

Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas) Ray Hunley   Netflix DVD   06 June 2005 Slick con film from Argentina. Gastón Pauls and Ricardo Darín are excellent and I wasn't completely sure until the very end which one was the mark. Remade in English as "Criminal", with John C. Reilly.

Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas) Steve Gadd   DVD   10 October 2005 A small time con man teams up with a master to pull off a once-in-a-lifetime operation. Naturally, things get interesting you start to wonder who is scamming who. Filmed in Buenos Aires just before things got really bad there.

No Country For Old Men Steve Gadd   Fairfax Towne Center   30 November 2007

No Country for Old Men Tony Pisarenkov   AMC Shirlington, Arlington, VA   10 February 2008 Excellent. Characters, suspense, tension, visuals, alleogries and references -- it's all here.

No Highway in the Sky Julie Gephart   Basic cable   24 July 2004 I liked at least the first part of this so much that I can’t even mock it. Jimmy Stewart is an obsessed scientist, stereotypically removed from people and emotions and Real Life. He’s developed a theory that the newest airplane model will develop fatal stress fractures after a certain number of hours in flight, and his detached fascination with the idea gets a human jolt upon discovery that his trans-Atlantic flight is an early prototype of that model, rapidly approaching the critical point in his theory.

Nói Steve Gadd   DVD   11 March 2005 Nói is an underachieving genius trapped in an Icelandic fishing town. His attempts to escape are poignant, and the visuals are memorable, but there isn't quite enough story.

North by Northwest Ray Hunley   Netflix DVD   04 April 2005 The crop duster; Mt. Rushmore; Eva Marie Saint.

Not Another Teen Movie Julie Gephart   Mysteriously free HBO   19 March 2003 This was a really stupid movie with a couple of funny moments and what I considered to be a shocking amount of nudity. Does this mean I've become an Old Prude already?

Notorious (1946) A Bennett   VHS from commercial-free AMC (back in the day)   05 July 2003 Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman generate more heat and passion than really should be (or should have been) legal, and it's all in the details.

Nowhere to Hide Ray Hunley   Netflix DVD   21 September 2005 A buddy cop film from South Korea. Kind of formulaic, but well-made and interesting.