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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).
According to Oscar Wilde, there are only two great tragedies in life: “One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
The Substance is about the body as commodity, something its star knows more about than most.
The credits roll 37 minutes into Chronicles of a Wandering Saint, at which point the movie is less than halfway over.
