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).
A chalk barrier encircles the secluded home, though it’s unclear whether it’s meant to keep something in or out.
Tom Cruise needs us to trust him one last time.
“How come you get to be so still and calm?” Sister Midnight’s troubled heroine asks the moon on a particularly bad night.