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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    • 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.
    • 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
    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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Elise Nakhnikian
    Cake
    The film is a study of grief that drowns in a cold bath of grim self-pity.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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."
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    Miracles from Heaven
    Situations and people are sketched out too lightly to leave an emotional trace.
    • 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.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Founder
    Michael Keaton's powerful performance in The Founder is marooned in a wishy-washy story.
    • 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
    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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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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