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Michael Nordine

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 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) 86% 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 The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “As bold and audacious as any biopic in years.” – Movie Brief Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “Funny in a sad way and sad in a funny way.” – Movie Brief Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% EDIT “"Hell is other people," especially when those people are 12-year-old boys.” – Movie Brief Jan 16, 2026 Full Review The Magnificent Seven (1960) 93% 3.5/5 EDIT “It’s no Seven Samurai, but The Magnificent Seven is worthy of the flag it waves.” – Slant Magazine Jan 14, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 3/4 EDIT “Chekhov’s gun by way of Saw.” – Movie Brief Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Mother and the Bear (2024) 89% 3/4 EDIT “It’s rare to see a performance worth discussing in a movie released in the first week of January, but Sara is so charming and likable in every small movement and gesture that you’re on her side from the moment you meet her.” – Movie Brief Jan 2, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “A master among masters, Park Chan-wook is the rare filmmaker whose every movie feels like an event unto itself.” – Movie Brief Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 3/4 EDIT “In applying his usual approach to something ostensibly banal, Safdie has found a sweet spot between subject and style.” – Movie Brief Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Rosemead (2025) 89% 3/4 EDIT “It’s unbelievable yet somehow true that this is Liu’s first leading role in a drama; let’s hope it’s not the last.” – Movie Brief Dec 11, 2025 Full Review Little Trouble Girls (2025) 98% 3/4 EDIT “What emerges from that struggle is a graceful meditation on faith, desire, and the internal strife that can arise when the two intermingle in the heart of someone who doesn’t know where one ends and the other begins.” – Movie Brief Dec 4, 2025 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “It’s also a little contrived, the kind of emotional climax that feels increasingly ersatz and even manipulative once feeling gives way to thinking.” – Movie Brief Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “Too clever by half and never picks up as much narrative momentum as the original or its sequel.” – Movie Brief Dec 3, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “You will quite literally never guess where a subplot involving a severed leg found inside of a shark is headed.” – Movie Brief Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “Seamlessly blends the idyllic and the morbid.” – Movie Brief Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “There’s a way to be exasperating while still being compelling, a needle Die My Love threads more often than not.” – Movie Brief Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Left-Handed Girl (2025) 98% 3.5/4 EDIT “Joyful in a way that only the most bittersweet stories can be.” – Movie Brief Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “There may be nothing new under the sun, but under the harsh rays of the desert, Sirāt looks like few other movies in recent or distant memory.” – Movie Brief Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% 3/4 EDIT “Trier, one of Norway’s most accomplished filmmakers, is decidedly unsentimental. (He is Scandinavian, after all.)” – Movie Brief Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% EDIT “Like a certain mad scientist’s most (in)famous creation, it's uniquely compelling in a way that only a mishmash of familiar parts can be.” – Movie Brief Nov 3, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 66% EDIT “The logic behind using AI to point out that most of its practitioners are creatively bankrupt is debatable; it’s also typical Jude, whose movies often feel like middle fingers directed at whatever’s caught his attention at the time.” – Movie Brief Nov 3, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “Anyone who’s seen Reichardt's prior movies will know that she always rewards our patience — even if she rarely rewards her characters’ bad behavior.” – Movie Brief Nov 3, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “Despite its attempt to be more akin to Raging Bull than Rocky, this is still a fairly pedestrian sports drama.” – Movie Brief Nov 3, 2025 Full Review
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