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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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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."
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Elise Nakhnikian
    Suffragette
    The film's episodes and attitudes register with searing immediacy while feeling true to their time period.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 12 Elise Nakhnikian
    Staten Island Summer
    Breaking the laws of human nature is an ancient comic convention, but it only works when it leads to a laugh.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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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