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Michael Nordine

Michael Nordine is a regular film contributor at the Village Voice LA Weekly, Denver Westword, Phoenix New Times, Miami New Times, Houston Press and Dallas Observer.

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It’s Time to Catch Up on the Rapture: The Leftovers Has Become One of TV’s Best Shows

By Michael Nordine
Apr 26, 2017

If you don't have religion, you should at least have The Leftovers. HBO's rapturous drama hasn't found much of an audience during its brief time on Earth, but those who listen to its sermon long enough tend to convert — nothing else on television seeks, so nakedly and unironically, to...
As Taboo's Finale Looms, a Celebration of Tom Hardy's Mumbly, Mystical Powers

By Michael Nordine
Feb 23, 2017

If you've grown weary of the Don Drapers and Walter Whites of the world, don't expect James Keziah Delaney to make a strong first impression. Taboo's antihero, played with signature laconicism by Tom Hardy, is another difficult man for this golden age of TV — and, as fate would have...
Sleepless Makes Michelle Monaghan and Jamie Foxx Work All Night Against a Tired Script

By Michael Nordine
Jan 18, 2017

Say this for Sleepless: It gives Michelle Monaghan more to do than almost anything else you've seen her in lately, whether it beTrue Detective or Patriots Day, and confirms once again that she should be in the lead far more often than Hollywood would have you believe. The positives don't...
Patriots Day Finds Mark Wahlberg Caught Between Fiction and Real Disaster

By Michael Nordine
Jan 10, 2017

For better and for worse, Peter Berg has found his genre. After oscillating between sports (Friday Night Lights), superheroes (Hancock) and even board games (Battleship) without much distinction, the writer, director, producer and actor has made a loose trilogy in which Mark Wahlberg reenacts recent tales of American heroism. Lone...
Martin Scorsese's Priests Persevere in the Searching Silence

By Michael Nordine
Jan 3, 2017

Martin Scorsese opens his foreword to the latest edition of Shusaku Endo's Silence with a simple, impossible question: "How do you tell the story of Christian faith?" The director isn't presumptuous enough to present his adaptation of that beloved novel as a definitive answer, but his film does read as...

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