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Movie Reviews by Michael Nordine - Page 12 of 23

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Review of Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for OZY (8) on 10 Feb 2015

Broomfield takes all involved to task for their (mis)handling of the case in this dispiriting portrait of a cast-aside community…

Review of The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Vice (43) on 10 Feb 2015

Strickland's skill is in how quickly he normalizes the proceedings, neither condescending to his characters nor using their inclinations for…

Review of Backcountry (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for OZY (8) on 10 Feb 2015

The vicarious thrills of getting lost in the cinematic wilderness have apparently yet to be exhausted…

Review of LoveSick (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Feb 2015

LeBlanc and Larter carry the day with a spectrum of charm missing from too many entries in this shaky, persistent genre…

Review of Northern Borders (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Jan 2015

It's easy to get lost in the natural beauty of Vermont, and Mosher (who worked on the film with several students as part of a Marlboro College…

Review of Norte, the End of History (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 10 Jan 2015

Diaz roots his film in the quotidian so as to make it all the more noticeable when he reaches for the transcendent, a lofty goal he frequently…

Review of The World Made Straight (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Jan 2015

On-the-nose monologues on the cyclical nature of centuries-old blood feuds ultimately feel more like stuffy lectures than living history; ditto…

Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 17 Dec 2014

As with most epics, there are a lot of speeches and dead horses -- all in needless 3D -- but not enough genuine emotion to actually make any…

Review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 17 Dec 2014

There's finally a genuine sense of breathless urgency to the concluding chapter, which pits man against dwarf against elf against orc in an…

Review of The Homesman (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 03 Dec 2014

Jones captures stark and disturbing moments with a matter-of-factness that's neither overstated nor flippantly casual…

Review of The Key (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Dec 2014

Initially engrossing as it is, the maximalism loses power sometime in the second act…

Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 20 Nov 2014

Katniss is treated as a pawn when she's clearly a queen, her image constantly co-opted by entities beyond her control trying to use it for…

Review of The Theory of Everything (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 19 Nov 2014

Anyone who's seen Errol Morris' expressionistic documentary on Hawking knows a conventional approach isn't ideal for the ALS-afflicted genius-which…

Review of American Sniper (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Indiewire (3,631) on 12 Nov 2014

Propulsive battle sequences in which sandstorms make the fog of war quite literal are the ostensible focus of American Sniper, but the real…

Review of The Gambler (1974)

By Michael Nordine (446) for IndieWire (3,631) on 11 Nov 2014

For all the hundreds of thousands of dollars being thrown around, The Gambler is much closer to a friendly game of poker with some loquacious,…

Review of Starry Eyes (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Nov 2014

The film is far less successful once it delves into body horror that makes Sarah's transformation as ghoulishly physical as it is mental…

Review of The Gambler (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Indiewire (3,631) on 11 Nov 2014

For all the hundreds of thousands of dollars being thrown around, The Gambler is much closer to a friendly game of poker with some loquacious,…

Review of Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Nov 2014

Our glimpses of what's already occurred and what will soon come are vivid and impressionistic, prophetic warnings about which everyone seems…

Review of Citizenfour (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 05 Nov 2014

Like a '70s paranoia thriller with real-world consequences…

Review of Death Metal Angola (2014)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Nov 2014

While hardly the first or most accomplished film of its kind, Death Metal Angola's focus on the ability of abrasive music to act as a healing…

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