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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).
“This restaurant is small,” one of Blue Sun Palace’s two leads says in the opening scene, “but the food is quite delicious.”
Reframing fairytales from a forgotten character’s perspective isn’t exactly a novel concept anymore, but folklore wouldn’t be folklore if we didn’t keep returning to it.
After fueling speculation that he was retiring, Alex Garland has decided to reenlist.
