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).
If the mobsters he owes money don’t kill Remo first, the drugs he steals from his horse ought to do the trick.
“Something really bad happened to me” is as specific as Agnes tends to be when asked about it.
You don’t think of yourself as a Dakota Johnson person until you watch her in a movie like Materialists and realize you are very much a Dakota Johnson person.