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Michael Nordine Movie Brief 5 days ago 3.5/4 Another quietly stunning effort from a filmmaker who seems incapable of making anything less. Go to Full Review Possible Love (2026) 100% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 21, 2026 3/4 A poignant rumination on what makes a country a country Go to Full Review Fatherland (2026) 93% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 15, 2026 4/4 A brilliant, potentially era-defining film that suggests Nathan Fielder has finally met his match. Go to Full Review You Can See Everything (2026) 96% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 8, 2026 3/4 Mungiu is so masterfully withholding, so skilled at not giving us what we’re used to getting from movies like this, that at a certain point you have to respect his dedicated restraint. Go to Full Review Fjord (2026) 92% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 6, 2026 The chronovisor may not exist, but at least movies like Chronovisor do. Go to Full Review Chronovisor (2026) 96% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 6, 2026 Might just be the best video game movie ever made, a title that recent trends suggest it won’t hold for long. Go to Full Review Resident Evil (2026) 96% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 6, 2026 Bleat your heart out, Pixar. Go to Full Review Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (2026) 99% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 6, 2026 The vérité, shaky-cam approach Greengrass cultivated in the Bourne franchise and United 93 is far less suited to 14th-century England. Go to Full Review The Uprising (2026) 57% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 6, 2026 They don’t make ‘em like they used to, except when they do. Go to Full Review Onslaught (2026) 60% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Oct 1, 2026 3/4 Predators come in all forms, some more elusive — and telegenic — than others. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 16, 2026 3/4 It makes you feel like an uninvited guest who can’t help feeling compelled to cross the threshold. Go to Full Review Never After Dark (2026) 98% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 16, 2026 3.5/4 Concrete itself might not be beautiful, but it can be used to create things that are — including, apparently, documentaries. Go to Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 97% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 10, 2026 3/4 Endlessly ambitious and so fully committed to being whatever the hell it is that you genuinely have to see it to believe it. Go to Full Review Hope (2026) 80% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 3, 2026 3.5/4 Far from a heavy-handed message movie, Filipiñana is first and foremost a sensory delight. Go to Full Review Filipiñana (2026) 90% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 3, 2026 We all need a reason to get out of bed in the morning, after all, and is an elusive bird any less noble a pursuit than a white whale? Go to Full Review Coyote vs. Acme (2026) 96% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 3, 2026 If you grew up convinced that Barney and the Teletubbies were evil, Casper Kelley’s feature theatrical debut may be the demented horror-comedy of your dreams Go to Full Review Buddy (2026) 88% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 3, 2026 Kafka likely would have died of embarrassment at the thought of someone making a movie about him, doubly so one like this. Go to Full Review Franz (2025) 74% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 3, 2026 Only intermittently aware that it’s actually a comedy, however, Oak Street would have been considerably more entertaining had it leaned further into its inherent silliness. Go to Full Review The End of Oak Street (2026) 86% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Sep 3, 2026 So impressed by itself that it leaves little room for the audience to be. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Michael Nordine Movie Brief Aug 27, 2026 3/4 When one of them learns something new about their prey, they all do. If only more movies were as smart. Go to Full Review Colony (2026) 81% - -