La Femme Nikita Critic Reviews

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Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Ludicrous. Its logic flies out the window like a rocket. It's unbelievable and ridiculous... But fascinating it is.Read the full review

The New York Times | Elvis MitchellAdd Critic to Favorites

The film, like Nikita herself, becomes more conventionally sleek and less interestingly bizarre as it moves along.Read the full review

Washington Post | Hal HinsonAdd Critic to Favorites

Parillaud is expressive but rather mundane. She's best at playing sullen, but there are so many French actresses who specialize in this particular talent -- the French have mastered the apathetic pout -- that she seems generic.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lawrence O'TooleAdd Critic to Favorites

It's like "The Terminator" as reimagined by the editors of French Vogue.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Michael WilmingtonAdd Critic to Favorites

Like the movies its modeled after, it's shallow, frequently silly. But there's something about the mix--maybe something about Parillaud as the screechy, dangerous Nikita--that may make the movie a powerful engine of wish-fulfillment. [12 Apr 1991, Calendar, p.F-10]Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

The picture, for all its slickness and style, is empty, empty-headed and emotionally false… [It] has no more depth than "Pretty Woman" and occupies the same moral landscape. [5 Apr 1991, Daily Datebook, p.E11]Read the full review

USA Today | Mike ClarkAdd Critic to Favorites

Disappointing. [6 Mar 1991, Life, p.9D]Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Surprisingly touching.Read the full review

Variety | Staff (Not Credited)Add Critic to Favorites

[Parillaud] remains a totally uninteresting figment of Besson's blinkered movieland imagination, especially when she's in the company of Karyo and Anglade, who provide balance to her overacting.Read the full review

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