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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    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Manifesto
    The film’s visceral pleasures often work at cross purposes with the cerebral message of the manifestos.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America
    The film is a debater with some interesting points to make but no overall argument to contain them.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Masterminds
    Jared Hess's film turns out to be a succession of failed jokes punctuated by a few cathartic laughs.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Florence Foster Jenkins
    The film champions coddling people like Florence Foster Jenkins and treats critical thinking as the enemy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Family Fang
    There's real texture and emotional heft to the central relationship between the siblings, but that's thanks more to the actors than the script.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Confirmation
    The premise is undermined by the film's occasionally dubious ethics and its tendency to soft-pedal the dangerous situations it sets up.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Race
    This is a complication-smoothing take on Jesse Owens's elegant riposte to Hitler's racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Touched With Fire
    The film is a thinly dramatized series of arguments against, then ultimately in favor of the medication of bipolar disorder.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Miles Ahead
    Less a character study than an impressionistic portrait of a troubled artist's internal chaos, it supplies just enough Miles Davis to leave us jonesing for more.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Misunderstood
    The film is only slightly dependent on the self-pity that informed Asia Argento's last effort, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, but it feels similarly airless.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Falling
    The film all leads to a melodramatic climax that wraps up the main character's explosive acting out in a too-neat package.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Batkid Begins
    Any hope of meaningful reflection or insight is doused by a steady drip of often redundant and banal observations.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Cake
    The film is a study of grief that drowns in a cold bath of grim self-pity.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Color of Time
    If The Tree of Life was a contemplation of the universal mysteries and verities of life, The Color of Time is an hour spent scrolling through a stranger's family album.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Hundred-Foot Journey
    The film is rife with tired food metaphors and plot twists so predictable you see them coming like travelers on the poplar-lined street that leads to the dueling restaurants.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
    Even at 74 minutes, the documentary comes to feel arduous in its recycling of the same points and imagery, the filmmaking as plodding as its subject is polished.

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