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
99 movie reviews
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    • 90 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
    The courtroom's cramped, near-featureless air of bureaucratic stagnation becomes oppressive even for the audience, making it easy to identify with Viviane's growing hunger for freedom.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
    The soft colors, graceful movements, and clean lines together embody the ineffable beauty of life on Earth that is one of the film's main themes.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Citizenfour
    Laura Poitras teaches by example, providing a privileged insight into Edward Snowden's personality and motivation while keeping the focus on government spying.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    Brooklyn
    The allure of the road not taken and Saoirse Ronan's performance exert a powerful pull.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    Return to Homs
    The film is a testament to the power of video to document resistance to corrupt and abusive regimes, but it's also a witness to the limits of that power.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Waiting Room
    Documents emotionally charged interactions between patients and hospital staff without any signs that the subjects are being made to feel self-conscious or that they're behavior is being affected.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Nuts!
    Throughout, director Penny Lane strings together telling incidents and anecdotes with a light touch.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Shaun the Sheep Movie
    It has generous lashings of Aardman Animations' trademark warmth, visual inventiveness, and satisfying Claymation tactility.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    Starred Up
    The cautious optimism with which it answers questions about rehabilitation and forgiveness is credible because the characters and setting feel so thoroughly authentic.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Dark Horse
    Despite the occasional cliché, this film mostly feels as messy as life, and as movingly complicated.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Buzzard
    This is a study of a man who's hard to like, harder to dismiss, and impossible to pigeonhole.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Güeros
    A good story, full of life and related with intelligence and a sense of humor.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Wonders
    Like a rural Fellini, Rohrwacher mixes the mundane with the absurd to create a sometimes fabulous tale that always feels palpably real.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Horses of God
    Nabil Ayouch's film allows us see how young suicide bombers--"horses of God," as the man in charge of their mission calls them--might deserve our pity.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    Time Out of Mind
    The film isn't preachy, but its indie-movie artiness sometimes get in the way of its noble mission, making us think more about the techniques being used than the effects they're meant to create.
    • 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.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Elise Nakhnikian
    The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
    The documentary is hesitant to show the great work that resulted from Hayao Miyazaki's "grand hobby," never including clips from the classics referred to throughout.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Elise Nakhnikian
    An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
    A playfully self-reflective rumination on what writer-director Terence Nance has described as "self-awareness through experience with love."
    • 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.
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