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Michael Nordine

Agrees with the Tomatometer 66% of the time.

Publications:: Film Threat , House Next Door , L.A. Weekly , Not Coming to a Theater Near You , Reverse Shot , Slant Magazine , Village Voice , Willamette Week

Total Reviews:: 180

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	0%	Generation Um... (2013)	" Reeves is front and center in a thinly sketched narrative anchored by little other than his presence ..." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2013
	100%	G-Dog (2013)	" G-Dog belongs to a long line of feel-good documentaries that win audience awards at film festivals and make you feel like a jerk for not liking them." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2013
	87%	Upstream Color (2013)	" One eventually grows so weary of discerning the signal from the noise that it all blurs together." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 26, 2013
	78%	Red Flag (2013)	" Karpovsky's DIY know-how helps maximize a pint-size budget." — Village Voice Posted Feb 19, 2013
C+	15%	A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)	" It's a decent action flick, but change a few characters' names and it's barely recognizable as a Die Hard movie." — Willamette Week Posted Feb 19, 2013
B-	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" At once feeds into and deconstructs the Sheen persona; it also serves as a welcome reminder that, when he's not busy "winning" or having a public meltdown, the man is a charismatic onscreen presence." — Willamette Week Posted Feb 19, 2013
	56%	Would You Rather (2013)	" Would You Rather verges on genuine intrigue at times, but it's ultimately just a slasher without the gore ..." — Village Voice Posted Feb 5, 2013
C+	40%	Parker (2013)	" Twenty years later, it turns out that Statham may be the last real action hero." — Willamette Week Posted Feb 1, 2013
C+	47%	Bullet to the Head (2013)	" Carried out with a sort of kinetic grace that betrays its makers' experience within the genre." — Willamette Week Posted Feb 1, 2013
B	46%	The Comedy (2012)	" Champions what it appears to mock and indicts what it appears to glorify." — Willamette Week Posted Jan 24, 2013
3.5/5	100%	Blue Caprice ()	" Lyrical to the point of being ghostly." — Film Threat Posted Jan 24, 2013
3.5/5	100%	Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)	" This is a consistently moving tone poem of a film, even if its immediacy doesn't necessarily translate into long-lasting resonance." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
1.5/5	33%	The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman ()	" So devoted to conveying the irrational whimsy of new love that it's overly irrational itself." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
4/5	——	Soldate Jeannette (Soldier Jane) ()	" As funny as Dogtooth and as silently observational as Bestiaire." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/5	86%	Breathe In ()	" It's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment at which Breathe In falls apart, mostly because hindsight reveals it was probably doomed all along." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
3.5/5	98%	Mud (2013)	" Confirms Nichols' status as a rising talent in the world of independent film who's yet to make a truly major work." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
2.5/5	——	May In The Summer ()	" The drama never fully takes off, and the laughs are too few and far between to offset the film's fundamental deficiencies." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
3/5	85%	Sightseers (2013)	" Wheatley remains a master of infusing the mundane with overtones of dread." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
3/5	67%	Manhunt ()	" It's telling that some of this documentary's most compelling segments are made up of pre-existing footage." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
2.5/5	——	Twenty Feet From Stardom (2013)	" Giving these not-quite-stars their moment in the sun is a commendable aim, but it comes at the expense of any real insight." — Film Threat Posted Jan 22, 2013
—	——	Tôkyô tawâ: Okan to boku to, tokidoki, oton (Tokyo Tower - Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad) (2007)	— Village Voice Posted Jan 22, 2013
	64%	Guilty Of Romance (2013)	" As bizarrely moralist as it is transgressive." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 16, 2013
	92%	Himizu (2013)	" Occasionally heavy-handed in the delivery of its ideas, but also a refreshingly sensitive character study." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 16, 2013
C+	30%	Broken City (2013)	" Somewhat passable in spite of its familiarity." — Willamette Week Posted Jan 16, 2013
.5/4	6%	A Haunted House (2013)	" If you're wondering why A Haunted House exists alongside the upcoming Scary Movie 5 rather than instead of it, you may already have given the subject more thought than Marlon Wayans had hoped." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 11, 2013
	——	The Tower (2012)	" Even at its best, The Tower is beholden to unearned emotional payoffs." — Village Voice Posted Jan 10, 2013
C	19%	Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)	" An artless exercise, but also sporadically successful in its attempts to expand on the Leatherface mythos in a new-ish way." — Willamette Week Posted Jan 9, 2013
B+	88%	Starlet (2012)	" Either avoids or transcends nearly every cliché we've come to associate with American independent film." — Willamette Week Posted Jan 9, 2013
B-	90%	Keep the Lights On (2012)	" Small in frame but large in heart." — Willamette Week Posted Jan 9, 2013
B+	94%	Farewell, My Queen (2012)	" By the time Seydoux realizes what's in store for her and her queen, we're almost as surprised as she is. " — Willamette Week Posted Jan 9, 2013
	82%	Rust and Bone (2012)	" A disappointing use of Cotillard's estimable talent buoyed by striking visuals and inspired use of a Katy Perry song." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 2, 2013
	89%	A Royal Affair (2012)	" Perhaps there's only so much to be done with a costume drama about illicit affairs and would-be coups." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 2, 2013
	75%	The Intouchables (2012)	" Gives its subject too light a treatment for the life-affirming message to feel earned. " — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 2, 2013
	93%	Amour (2012)	" On paper it's a welcome change of pace for Haneke, but his tendency to treat the couple as patients rather than characters -- at a cold remove rather than with a warm embrace -- feels at odds with the material." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 2, 2013
	100%	My Brooklyn (2013)	" The personal and political don't always align as well as they're meant to, but enough of the labor-of-love aspects shine through in a positive way to grant the film a genuine emotional core." — Village Voice Posted Jan 2, 2013
1/4	8%	A Dark Truth (2013)	" A Dark Truth is one of those unfortunate projects whose component parts are immediately at odds with one another." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 30, 2012
	79%	Miami Connection (2012)	" In wearing its flaws on its sleeve(less shirt), Miami Connection makes them more endearing than problematic." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 10, 2012
2/4	40%	Yelling to the Sky (2012)	" The film avoids most of its genre's pratfalls, though it also shows little interest in transcending them." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 8, 2012
	50%	What A Man (2012)	" Mostly harmless but also irksome in its bland simplicity ..." — Village Voice Posted Nov 27, 2012
	76%	Kon Tiki (2013)	" Could have used a bit more blood in the water, but its crystal-clear waves are a sight to behold nevertheless." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 26, 2012
	43%	28 Hotel Rooms (2012)	" In eliminating all the filler, it ends up feeling like nothing but." — Village Voice Posted Nov 14, 2012
	79%	A Late Quartet (2012)	" Zilberman is at his best when leaving narrative threads hanging rather than trying to tie them together." — Village Voice Posted Nov 1, 2012
	11%	Just 45 Minutes From Broadway (2012)	" Altogether, it comes to resemble theater filmed by Paul Greengrass." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2012
	53%	Simon and the Oaks (2012)	" Simon and the Oaks has all the superficial elements of compelling drama but none of the interiority; it looks like a good movie without ever actually feeling like one." — Village Voice Posted Oct 9, 2012
	84%	Smashed (2012)	" Smashed at its worst is still better than many other films of its kind at their best." — Village Voice Posted Oct 9, 2012
	100%	In My Mother's Arms (2012)	" Husham's efforts might be a drop in the bucket, but that only makes them more worthy of documenting, perhaps even celebrating." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2012
	44%	Decoding Deepak (2012)	" As much an exercise in self-help as it is a demystification of its title character." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2012
	——	The Prosecution of an American President (2012)	" So unabashedly one-sided that the doc is problematic even when the facts and figures check out." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2012
	86%	Harvest of Empire (2012)	" Harvest of Empire is never quite wrong, but it's effectiveness is inversely proportional to how hard it's trying." — Village Voice Posted Sep 25, 2012

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