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MICHAEL NORDINE Movie Reviews

48 reviews, averaging 54.9% positive
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1. 05/03/13 Fair "...would appear to give the erstwhile action star more opportunity to shine. It does that in its own way... But it ends up being ponderous and unfulfilling itself."
2.

Generation Um...

Village Voice
05/01/13 Fair "Keanu Reeves is able to make such potentially silly material as this strangely compelling, but his hard work is ultimately a drop in an otherwise empty bucket."
3.

Red Flag

Village Voice
02/20/13 Good "Some genuinely tender moments offset the occasional dramatic misfire... Alex Karpovsky's DIY know-how helps maximize a pint-size budget."
4.

Would You Rather

Village Voice
02/06/13 Fair "...the film gets credit for its ability to keep us guessing early on but eventually reveals that where it's going is nowhere near as interesting as where it might have..."
5. 01/11/13 Poor "Nearly every one of these would-be jokes is painfully drawn-out, with several scenes seeming to act as their own blooper reels.... absolute humorlessness..."
6.

My Brooklyn

Village Voice
01/02/13 Good "The personal and political don't always align... but enough of the labor-of-love aspects shine through in a positive way to grant the film a genuine emotional core."
7. 12/30/12 Poor "...the performers are so hampered by the bland script that their best efforts ultimately do little to stop this from resembling a made-for-TV movie..."
8. 12/08/12 Moderate "This movie isn't the outraged indictment its title would imply, but neither is it emotionally resonant enough to make up for its lack of a clear focus."
9. 11/29/12 Fair "Imitating generic Hollywood product and then exporting it back to the States tends to provide few rewards for anyone, least of all the audience."
10.

What a Man (2012)

Village Voice
11/28/12 Fair "...scarcely distinguishable from the 'No Strings Attached' school of rom-coms.... Mostly harmless but also irksome in its bland simplicity..."
11. 11/26/12 Good "The film is a much tighter ship than the one it's about, with any leaks it springs along the way slowing it down but not sinking it... a sight to behold..."
12. 11/08/12 Fair "...a movie about two people (Marin Ireland and Chris Messina) truly getting to know each other without either character ever feeling genuinely fleshed out."
13.

28 Hotel Rooms

Village Voice
11/07/12 Fair "...stripped-down, episodic... By its halfway point, the film comes to feel like a short unwisely expanded to feature length..."
14. 11/01/12 Moderate "It's something of a relief that little is actually resolved... Zilberman is at his best when leaving narrative threads hanging rather than trying to tie them together."
15.

A Late Quartet

Village Voice
10/31/12 Moderate "...a mixed bag. Always stately, occasionally stuffy... prone to occasional bouts of grandiosity not quite befitting its stripped-down scale."
16. 10/18/12 Moderate "...tends to relegate its most interesting aspects to the background, its mind always elsewhere (most often a forced authenticity in capturing its period setting)..."
17. 10/17/12 Fair "...the acting feels so forced, the staging so wooden, that it's impossible to be fully engaged in what's actually going on."
18. 10/11/12 Excellent "...as much about recovery as it is about addiction... successfully makes the case that the twelve steps can sometimes be more difficult than whatever necessitated them..."
19.

Smashed (2012)

Village Voice
10/10/12 Excellent "Movies about drugs and alcohol may be a dime(bag) a dozen, but James Ponsoldt's film is so beautifully shot and well-acted as to transcend the genre."
20. 10/10/12 Moderate "...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."

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