Michael Nordine

Michael Nordine is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group and its film partner, the Village Voice. VMG publications include LA Weekly, Denver Westword, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, Broward-Palm Beach New Times, Houston Press and Dallas Observer.

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It’s Time to Catch Up on the Rapture: The Leftovers Has Become One of TV’s Best Shows

By Michael Nordine
Apr 24, 2017

The Leftovers airs Sundays on HBO If you don't have religion, you should at least have The Leftovers. HBO's rapturous drama hasn't found much of an audience during its brief time on Earth, but those who listen to its sermon long enough tend to convert — nothing else on television...
Donnie Darko Returns But Remains Out of Time

By Michael Nordine
Mar 30, 2017

Having now reached the age of its wayward protagonist, Donnie Darko is once again being tasked with forestalling the end of the world. Richard Kelly's sleeper first opened almost two years after screening at Sundance, and a month after 9/11, becoming an early example of a trend that scarcely exists...
Dakota Fanning Compels as a Mute Midwife, but Brimstone Won't Leave You Speechless

By Michael Nordine
Mar 8, 2017

Every Western that gets made feels like it could be the last one, and yet the genre refuses to ride off into the sunset. Martin Koolhoven's Brimstone doesn't breathe new life into the oater, but the Dutch writer/director has clearly studied the gunslingers of yore. His film strives for a...
Sleepless Makes Michelle Monaghan and Jamie Foxx Work All Night Against a Tired Script

By Michael Nordine
Jan 25, 2017

Say this for Sleepless: It gives Michelle Monaghan more to do than almost anything else you've seen her in lately, whether it beTrue Detective or Patriots Day, and confirms once again that she should be in the lead far more often than Hollywood would have you believe. The positives don't...
Patriots Day Finds Mark Wahlberg Caught Between Fiction and Real Disaster

By Michael Nordine
Jan 10, 2017

For better and for worse, Peter Berg has found his genre. After oscillating between sports (Friday Night Lights), superheroes (Hancock) and even board games (Battleship) without much distinction, the writer, director, producer and actor has made a loose trilogy in which Mark Wahlberg reenacts recent tales of American heroism. Lone...

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