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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    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    All This Panic
    There's plenty of life in this honest, impressionistic portrait of a cohort of 21st-century American girls.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    Patti Cake$
    The obstacles and opportunities that Patti encounters are often rote, but her struggles and triumphs are detailed with a gravity that honors and elucidates her feelings.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Donald Cried
    Finding the drama and humor in everyday situations like these isn't easy, but Avedisian makes it look as natural as swinging on a vine.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    Hidden Figures
    The central characters' dogged refusal to cede their places on a team that keeps trying to reject them is a moving display of heroism.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    Gimme Danger
    The film reveals the erudition and shrewd self-awareness that Jim Osterberg drew on to become Iggy Pop.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Miss Hokusai
    It condenses everyday interactions, memories, and dreams into a potent mix of all the major ingredients of a well-lived life.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Hollars
    The film's ruefully honest tone is periodically drowned out by the blare of stagey coincidences.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Don't Blink - Robert Frank
    Like the work it illuminates, the doc feels formally impeccable yet utterly unstaged, a vivid distillation of a distinct and precious life.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Nuts!
    Throughout, director Penny Lane strings together telling incidents and anecdotes with a light touch.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Call Her Applebroog
    It implies that not even the concentrated self-scrutiny required to make art like Ida Applebroog's is enough to make sense of ourselves to ourselves.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Dark Horse
    Despite the occasional cliché, this film mostly feels as messy as life, and as movingly complicated.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Under the Shadow
    The film's horror is spookily and movingly expressive of the tenuous position of women in 1980s Iran.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
    Its feminist perspective checkmates the frat-boy misogyny and machismo that too often mar films set in combat zones.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words
    It highlights the potent dichotomies that, combined with Bergman's relatively unmediated beauty, made the actress luminescent both on and off screen.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Sand Dollars
    It respects and plumbs the feelings of all three main characters while surfacing the economic, ethnic, cultural, and gender power imbalances in their relationships.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Suffragette
    The film's episodes and attitudes register with searing immediacy while feeling true to their time period.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Room
    The film, never sensational or saccharine, is a tough but tender tribute to the creative power of maternal love.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    Brooklyn
    The allure of the road not taken and Saoirse Ronan's performance exert a powerful pull.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Dukhtar
    The film functions as a love letter to Pakistan, despite the misogynistic culture it exposes.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Meet the Patels
    In this picaresque documentary, the lightly comic musings of a likeable, somewhat nerdy Indian-American actor go surprisingly deep.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    American Ultra
    A Bourne movie turned just askew enough to be funny, American Ultra trains a bemused eye on a trope ripe for a ribbing.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Shaun the Sheep Movie
    It has generous lashings of Aardman Animations' trademark warmth, visual inventiveness, and satisfying Claymation tactility.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Stray Dog
    Ron "Stray Dog" Hall proves to be a welcome antidote to stereotypes about burly, bearded red-state RV dwellers.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Farewell Party
    A neatly balanced tragicomedy about the easily blurred line between assisted living and assisted death.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Güeros
    A good story, full of life and related with intelligence and a sense of humor.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    I'll See You in My Dreams
    Highly polished yet never quite slick, it devolves now and then into cartoonish cutesiness with its broadly drawn minor characters.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Monkey Kingdom
    The cumulative effect is cheerily life-affirming, a bracing infusion of macaque-style joie de vivre.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    Danny Collins
    The chemistry between Pacino and his cast mates gives this lightly amusing contrivance surprising emotional resonance.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    True to its title, Marielle Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's semi-autobiographical novel has the loosely structured, unfiltered feel of a young person's diary.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Merchants of Doubt
    An issues documentary that scores its points through a seductive combination of clearly stated arguments and pithy humor.
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