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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).
The perils of not asking “so, what are we?” in a timely manner reach their (il)logical conclusion in Oh, Hi!, a dark rom-com in which we aren’t the only captive audience.
If you want to understand the digital age and its anxieties, you could do worse than watching a Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie.
There’s no such thing as a sovereign citizen, but there are a lot of people who’d be angry if they heard you say that.
