Elise Nakhnikian

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For 99 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Elise Nakhnikian's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 88 Nuts!
Lowest review score: 12 Taken 3
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 99
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 99
  3. Negative: 25 out of 99
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    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Circle
    The film is a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Comedian
    Nearly everything in Taylor Hackford's tin-eared comedy is as ersatz as the Robert De Diro character's rage is real.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Founder
    Michael Keaton's powerful performance in The Founder is marooned in a wishy-washy story.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    Rules Don't Apply
    Warren Beatty's portrayal of Howard Hughes has the overly polished feel of an anecdote that's been told too often.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Dressmaker
    The frequent contemptuousness the film displays toward its characters keeps the audience at arm's length.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    Hands of Stone
    The Panamanian-born Roberto Duran's story has all the makings of a fascinating film, but Hands of Stone isn't it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Tallulah
    Relevant facts about each character are dutifully punched out, in earnest speeches or actions that are often wildly overdrawn.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Infiltrator
    Its clunky incidents of exposition leave us with no real understanding of what anyone is thinking or feeling.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Being Charlie
    Most of the film's characters are unconvincing, flattened out by Charlie's self-focused lens.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Meddler
    Writer-director Lorene Scafaria's film is an unconvincing character study that plays like a painfully unfunny sitcom.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    Miracles from Heaven
    Situations and people are sketched out too lightly to leave an emotional trace.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Brothers Grimsby
    The film doesn't do much to satirize the spy genre, instead using its flimsy plot mostly as a scaffolding for a barrage of jokes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Lady in the Van
    The film's annoying glibness is neatly summarized by the line: "In life, going downhill is an uphill job."
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    The 33
    The film doles out a shock or hits a (usually hollow) emotional note every few minutes with mechanical precision.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Burnt
    Everything in the by-the-numbers script signals that Adam must transform himself from and abusive tyrant in the kitchen to the head of a loving and fully functional family.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    A Brilliant Young Mind
    The film focuses on Nathan's emotions and backstage dramas in ways that generally feel forced or inauthentic.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 12 Elise Nakhnikian
    Staten Island Summer
    Breaking the laws of human nature is an ancient comic convention, but it only works when it leads to a laugh.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    Wild Horses
    Robert Duvall's evident admiration for his wife are typical of this film, in which so much seems touchingly sincere but clumsily expressed.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Seventh Son
    As is often the case in films like this, Seventh Son is at its weakest when it tries to leaven its brink-of-disaster gravity with a little nerdy humor.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 12 Elise Nakhnikian
    Taken 3
    Empowerment porn for those who long for the Cold War's clarity of purpose and American dominance in this murky age of terror.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    Pride
    The film the tough true story has spawned is as formulaically cheery, didactically "uplifting," and fundamentally false as a Disney sports movie.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    My Old Lady
    Israel Horovitz's film is basically a three-character play without a single character you can believe in.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Coldwater
    It comes as no surprise that writer-director Vincent Grashaw wrote the first draft of this movie soon after graduating high school.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Elise Nakhnikian
    Red Dawn
    It feeds the warrior fantasies of adolescent boys with a testosterone-heavy tale of a war free of moral complications.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    Disney draws a big fat bullseye on the fast-growing infertile-couple demographic with this airless misfire.

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