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Michael Nordine is a Los Angeles-based film critic. His writing has been featured in Variety, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, LA Weekly, the Village Voice, and the Washington Post, among others, and his reviews can be found on both Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes. Michael served as Weekend Editor at IndieWire prior to joining Optimism, a position that saw him filing articles live from the Oscars and Golden Globes.
He is a member of both LAFCA (the Los Angeles Film Critics Association) and FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics).
After Queen Elizabeth II died, the royal beekeeper performed one of his most important duties: telling the bees.
Vahid’s first mistake is only digging one grave.
Jeffrey Manchester can tell you the exact number of houses on his block and how many of them have chimneys, but he can’t afford to buy his daughter a bike for her birthday or give his wife a good reason not to leave him.
