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. Negative: 25 out of 99
99 movie reviews
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    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.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Relevant facts about each character are dutifully punched out, in earnest speeches or actions that are often wildly overdrawn.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    The frequent contemptuousness the film displays toward its characters keeps the audience at arm's length.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Nearly everything in Taylor Hackford's tin-eared comedy is as ersatz as the Robert De Diro character's rage is real.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Most of the film's characters are unconvincing, flattened out by Charlie's self-focused lens.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 25 Elise Nakhnikian
    Its clunky incidents of exposition leave us with no real understanding of what anyone is thinking or feeling.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 12 Elise Nakhnikian
    Empowerment porn for those who long for the Cold War's clarity of purpose and American dominance in this murky age of terror.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Elise Nakhnikian
    It feeds the warrior fantasies of adolescent boys with a testosterone-heavy tale of a war free of moral complications.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 12 Elise Nakhnikian
    Breaking the laws of human nature is an ancient comic convention, but it only works when it leads to a laugh.

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