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Movie Reviews by Michael Nordine - Page 8 of 23

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Review of Knight of Cups (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 09 Mar 2016

Malick releases his movies into the world like a falconer: Once let loose, they have minds of their own…

Review of Chimes at Midnight (1965)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 09 Mar 2016

A best-of approach that cuts to the soul of a figure whom Welles considered Shakespeare's greatest creation…

Review of Eye in the Sky (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 09 Mar 2016

The problem with movies depicting the banality of anything, of course, is that they tend to be pretty banal themselves; in setting out to be…

Review of A Country Called Home (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

Poots, who's quietly distinguished herself in a number of supporting roles over the last few years, brings a documentary-like naturalism to…

Review of The Mermaid (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Mar 2016

For all its aspirations toward movie magic with an activist bent, The Mermaid’s potential implications for the film industry are ultimately…

Review of The Witch (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 20 Feb 2016

We fear such things because they're unnatural, a perversion of everything we know to be true about the world…

Review of Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 19 Feb 2016

Björkman's best quality as a documentarian is ultimately a double-edged sword: He's too content to let his subject do all the talking…

Review of Risen (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 Feb 2016

Cliff Curtis is appealingly low-key as Christ, humble in a way that the film around him would have done well to emulate…

Review of Jane Got a Gun (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Feb 2016

O'Connor's movie is too sentimental and self-serious to add much of note to the mythos, but Portman embodies her character's grief no less…

Review of Hail, Caesar! (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 03 Feb 2016

They may not make them like they used to, but at least they still make them like this…

Review of Southbound (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Feb 2016

Just as most of them can't outrun their pasts, neither can they escape familiar plot contrivances that try too hard and achieve too little…

Review of The Lady in the Van (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 27 Jan 2016

As with the lady's neighbors, this movie doesn't know what to do with her…

Review of The Boy (2016)

By Michael Nordine (446) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 25 Jan 2016

There's only so much she can do once the movie around her devolves into the usual barrage of jump scares, but Cohan maintains her composure…

Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 22 Jan 2016

Striking visuals guide the way more breathlessly than any footnote could…

Review of Trumbo (2007)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 22 Jan 2016

Hardly free of the bluster that is the hallmark of prestige pictures about 'serious' subjects, but there's a certain breeziness to Trumbo that…

Review of Trumbo (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 22 Jan 2016

Hardly free of the bluster that is the hallmark of prestige pictures about 'serious' subjects, but there's a certain breeziness to Trumbo that…

Review of Carol (1974)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 22 Jan 2016

Though some may be left cold by the remove at which Haynes keeps us from his superlative leads, others will be putty in his gifted hands…

Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 22 Jan 2016

Striking visuals guide the way more breathlessly than any footnote could…

Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 22 Jan 2016

A risk-averse account of a group of people who were anything but…

Review of Heart of a Dog (1988)

By Michael Nordine (446) for City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul (157) on 22 Jan 2016

This is cinematic free association, with one tangent leading to another and another until you've forgotten the original thread…

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