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Elise Nakhnikian

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No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (2010) 89% EDIT “As told by James and his crew, Iverson's story is a great American tragedy, a harrowing look into the gaping racial fault line that runs through America in general and Hampton, Virginia, in particular.” – Slant Magazine Feb 8, 2020 Full Review For Ahkeem (2017) 96% EDIT “The weight of the systemic racism they experience is crushing enough to make it hard to imagine that Daje and Antoine will be able to offer their son any more opportunities than they have themselves.” – Slant Magazine May 10, 2017 Full Review Intent to Destroy (2017) 92% EDIT “The global lack of knowledge that's resulted from Turkey's denial campaign is more amnesia than ignorance.” – Slant Magazine May 10, 2017 Full Review The Circle (2017) 16% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film is a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.” – Slant Magazine Apr 28, 2017 Full Review Manifesto (2015) 75% 2/4 EDIT “The film's visceral pleasures often work at cross purposes with the cerebral message of the manifestos.” – Slant Magazine Apr 22, 2017 Full Review Person to Person (2017) 55% 2.5/4 EDIT “The uneven quality of Person to Person's stories and the inconsequential feel of much of what happens make the film feel a little like a stroll through the city.” – Slant Magazine Mar 16, 2017 Full Review Happy Times Will Come Soon (2016) 2/4 EDIT “Alessandro Comodin's film is a mlange of gorgeous tiles that never quite comes together as a mosaic.” – Slant Magazine Mar 16, 2017 Full Review Sexy Durga (2017) 56% 3/4 EDIT “A couple's journey gone horribly awry comes to feel universal, an allegory about the violent misogyny that plagues India.” – Slant Magazine Mar 16, 2017 Full Review Patti Cake$ (2017) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “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.” – Slant Magazine Mar 5, 2017 Full Review Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) 91% EDIT “The credit for bringing out their humanity goes partly to the cast, of course, but it starts with director and co-writer Iñárritu, who can now find humor as well as heartbreak in the hopes, fears, and ridiculous dreams that make us human.” – Brooklyn Magazine Feb 24, 2017 Full Review The Comedian (2016) 24% 1/4 EDIT “Nearly everything in Taylor Hackford's tin-eared comedy is as ersatz as the Robert De Niro character's rage is real.” – Slant Magazine Jan 30, 2017 Full Review Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (2016) 86% 2/4 EDIT “The film is a debater with some interesting points to make but no overall argument to contain them.” – Slant Magazine Jan 3, 2017 Full Review Hidden Figures (2016) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “The central characters' dogged refusal to cede their places on a team that keeps trying to reject them is a moving display of heroism.” – Slant Magazine Dec 11, 2016 Full Review The Founder (2016) 80% 1.5/4 EDIT “Michael Keaton's powerful performance in The Founder is marooned in a wishy-washy story.” – Slant Magazine Dec 7, 2016 Full Review Rules Don't Apply (2016) 56% 1.5/4 EDIT “Warren Beatty's portrayal of Howard Hughes has the overly polished feel of an anecdote that's been told too often.” – Slant Magazine Nov 16, 2016 Full Review Gimme Danger (2016) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film reveals the erudition and shrewd self-awareness that Jim Osterberg drew on to become Iggy Pop.” – Slant Magazine Oct 24, 2016 Full Review Miss Hokusai (2015) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “It condenses everyday interactions, memories, and dreams into a potent mix of all the major ingredients of a well-lived life.” – Slant Magazine Oct 10, 2016 Full Review Uncle Howard (2016) 92% EDIT “It's too simplistic to provide much, if any, perspective-more Bloodhounds of Broadway than Burroughs: The Movie.” – Slant Magazine Oct 3, 2016 Full Review I Called Him Morgan (2016) 96% EDIT “It pulls off the delicate maneuver of mourning Lee Morgan's early demise while celebrating the exhilarating love, liberty, and artistic brilliance that characterized most of his life.” – Slant Magazine Oct 3, 2016 Full Review Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016) 93% EDIT “Steve James displays his usual savvy for picking culturally resonant topics in his latest documentary.” – Slant Magazine Oct 3, 2016 Full Review Masterminds (2016) 34% 2/4 EDIT “Jared Hess's film turns out to be a succession of failed jokes punctuated by a few cathartic laughs.” – Slant Magazine Sep 29, 2016 Full Review The Dressmaker (2015) 60% 1/4 EDIT “The frequent contemptuousness the film displays toward its characters keeps the audience at arm's length.” – Slant Magazine Sep 9, 2016 Full Review The Hollars (2016) 44% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film's ruefully honest tone is periodically drowned out by the blare of stagey coincidences.” – Slant Magazine Aug 25, 2016 Full Review Hands of Stone (2016) 44% 1.5/4 EDIT “The Panamanian-born Roberto Duran's story has all the makings of a fascinating film, but Hands of Stone isn't it.” – Slant Magazine Aug 22, 2016 Full Review Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) 87% 2/4 EDIT “The film champions coddling people like Florence Foster Jenkins and treats critical thinking as the enemy.” – Slant Magazine Aug 11, 2016 Full Review
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