Michael Nordine
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
Variety,
L.A. Weekly,
Film Threat,
Slant Magazine,
Village Voice,
Willamette Week,
Reverse Shot,
IndieWire,
TheWrap,
Vice,
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul,
House Next Door,
OZY,
Pasadena Weekly,
Not Coming to a Theater Near You,
Film Occasionally,
Movie Brief
Living the Land (2025)
100%
3/4
EDIT
“Huo’s manner of observation is sometimes dispassionate, like a documentarian training his camera on the everyday and letting it slowly reveal the extraordinary.” –
Movie Brief
Apr 1, 2026
Full Review
Alpha (2025)
56%
EDIT
“More of a beta.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 30, 2026
Full Review
Kontinental '25 (2025)
92%
EDIT
“Jude isn’t *not* self-indulgent, but he’s certainly never boring, either.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 30, 2026
Full Review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026)
73%
EDIT
“Proves entertaining largely due to the effortlessly charming Weaving, who’s so easy to root for that you find yourself rooting for the rest of the movie by proxy.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 30, 2026
Full Review
Tow (2025)
78%
EDIT
“A familiar woman-against-the-system drama buoyed by Byrne’s excellent performance.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 30, 2026
Full Review
Two Prosecutors (2025)
97%
3/4
EDIT
“It’s impossible not to root for — and worry about — Kornyev as he endeavors to do the right thing.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 26, 2026
Full Review
Project Hail Mary (2026)
95%
3/4
EDIT
“A sweet, ridiculously entertaining crowdpleaser.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 19, 2026
Full Review
undertone (2025)
72%
3/4
EDIT
“Closing your eyes isn’t enough to prevent Undertone from scaring the hell out of you — you’ll have to cover your ears, too.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 12, 2026
Full Review
THE BRIDE! (2026)
57%
2.5/4
EDIT
“Whatever its faults, let it not be said that The Bride! lacks for the kind of mad-scientist energy that Hollywood could use more of.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 6, 2026
Full Review
Scream 7 (2026)
31%
EDIT
“The more it reminds you of the original, the more you’ll wonder why you didn’t just stay home and rewatch that one instead.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 2, 2026
Full Review
Dreams (2025)
52%
EDIT
“If movies are like dreams, Michel Franco’s are the restless kind.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 2, 2026
Full Review
My Father's Shadow (2025)
97%
EDIT
“Nigeria is hard, but Davies Jr. shows that it’s beautiful as well.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 2, 2026
Full Review
Wuthering Heights (2026)
57%
EDIT
“There’s a fine line between star-crossed and stupid, and these two lovers — to say nothing of the movie as a whole — are rarely on the right side of it.” –
Movie Brief
Mar 2, 2026
Full Review
Pillion (2025)
99%
3.5/4
EDIT
“Pillion isn’t the first dom-com, but it might just be the best.” –
Movie Brief
Feb 26, 2026
Full Review
How to Make a Killing (2026)
44%
2.5/4
EDIT
“This fun-enough black comedy feels like a lesser version of a movie Powell already made: Richard Linklater’s Hit Man.” –
Movie Brief
Feb 26, 2026
Full Review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025)
83%
3/4
EDIT
“A gonzo warning about our overreliance on technology we neither understand nor control that doesn’t come across as a get-off-my-lawn lecture. ” –
Movie Brief
Feb 12, 2026
Full Review
Send Help (2026)
93%
EDIT
“Like its heroine, it changes course every time you think you have it figured out.” –
Movie Brief
Feb 3, 2026
Full Review
A Poet (2025)
100%
EDIT
“"Do you also live in profound sadness?"” –
Movie Brief
Feb 3, 2026
Full Review
Young Mothers (2025)
95%
EDIT
“Evinces the same sympathetic idea as all the Dardennes' best movies: just because you don’t always make good decisions doesn’t mean you don’t deserve to live a good life.” –
Movie Brief
Feb 3, 2026
Full Review
The Chronology of Water (2025)
90%
EDIT
“Too often feels like being held underwater and waiting to come up for air.” –
Movie Brief
Feb 3, 2026
Full Review
We Bury the Dead (2024)
88%
EDIT
“Might be the first zombie movie in which no living character is bitten by, and joins the ranks of, the undead; the movie itself, like its most unfortunate characters, is caught in an in-between state from which there’s no moving on” –
Movie Brief
Feb 3, 2026
Full Review
The Love That Remains (2025)
94%
3/4
EDIT
“You can feel the family’s collective memories forming in real time.” –
Movie Brief
Jan 29, 2026
Full Review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
92%
3/4
EDIT
“In even bothering to ponder such questions, The Bone Temple expands the franchise’s mythos and shows it has more on its mind than most of its genre ilk.” –
Movie Brief
Jan 23, 2026
Full Review
A Useful Ghost (2025)
87%
3/4
EDIT
“Almost certainly the best movie ever made about a possessed vacuum cleaner.” –
Movie Brief
Jan 16, 2026
Full Review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
66%
EDIT
“Just because these movies don’t need to exist doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be glad they do.” –
Movie Brief
Jan 16, 2026
Full Review
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