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Movie ID: 1197
RT slug: christine_2016
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/christine_2016
Release year: 2016
Runtime: 119 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: 2016-10-14
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2017-01-10
Tomatometer final: 88%
Audience score final: 71%
Genres: Biography, Drama
Directors: Antonio Campos
Writers: Craig Shilowich
Producers: Craig Shilowich, Melody Roscher
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
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Updated: 2026-08-21 15:22:58
In Sarasota, Fla., circa 1974, an ambitious, 29-year-old reporter is relentlessly motivated to succeed. She knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the '70s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition for a promotion and a tumultuous home life lead to a dissolution of self. With ratings in the cellar, the station manager issues a mandate to deliver juicier and more exploitative stories, a story firmly at odds with her serious brand of issue-based journalism.
Rising on the strength of Rebecca Hall's gripping performance, Christine offers an empathetic look at its subject's public career and painful private life.
Canonical reviews: 128
Canonical fresh: 113
Canonical rotten: 15
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 88%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-21 14:54:24
Snapshot Tomatometer: 88%
Snapshot review count: 128
Snapshot fresh count: 113
Snapshot rotten count: 15
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| Company | Role |
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| The Orchard | distributor |
| Borderline Films | production |
| Fresh Jade | production |
| Great Point Media | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
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| 1 | Rebecca Hall | Christine Chubbuck |
| 2 | Michael C. Hall | George Ryan |
| 3 | Tracy Letts | Michael |
| 4 | Maria Dizzia | Jean Reed |
| 5 | J. Smith-Cameron | Peg Chubbuck |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 247457 | Vadim Rizov | Filmmaker Magazine | Fresh | — | 2023-01-18T20:59:49.000Z | 2023-01-18 20:59:49 | It was far more compelling than I expected, and a definite evolution in Campos’ flexibility as a filmmaker; whatever its flaws, I never knew what would happen next, and that’s rare. |
| 247458 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-08-19T22:28:10.000Z | 2022-08-19 22:28:10 | Subtly the film grows more unnerving with each step forward. Campos methodically puts together the pieces of this story, and it’s tough to endure knowing the tragic finale that lies ahead. |
| 247459 | Victoria Luxford | City AM | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-02-21T17:47:16.000Z | 2022-02-21 17:47:16 | A compassionate portrait thats far more nuanced than the headlines surrounding the story would suggest. |
| 247460 | Kip Mooney | Fresh Fiction | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-08-10T02:50:38.000Z | 2021-08-10 02:50:38 | Hall's movie through and through. She owns the role from first frame to last. |
| 247461 | Jason Adams | My New Plaid Pants | Fresh | — | 2021-07-06T20:23:08.000Z | 2021-07-06 20:23:08 | Hall's a marvel of precisely off-center movements, piling up inexplicable but fascinating tics that kept making me lean in closer to see. |
| 247462 | Aaron Pinkston | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2021-01-04T22:03:04.000Z | 2021-01-04 22:03:04 | Christine may ultimately be known as a performance film, and that's both slightly disappointing and absolutely deserved. |
| 247463 | Fernanda Solórzano | Letras Libres | Fresh | — | 2020-05-22T15:00:27.000Z | 2020-05-22 15:00:27 | The key to the uncertainty that Christine the movie and Christine the character produce is Rebecca Hall's excellent work -- one of her best performances. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 247464 | Steven Prokopy | Third Coast Review | Fresh | — | 2020-04-28T23:11:43.000Z | 2020-04-28 23:11:43 | Christine captures the period and the mood of the country quite faithfully, without getting lost in '70s kitch. But nothing about the film quite prepared me for the depth of the compassion and pain that Rebecca Hall brings to her role. |
| 247465 | Jorge Ignacio Castillo | The Canadian Crew | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-01-28T22:32:22.000Z | 2020-01-28 22:32:22 | The movie's biggest asset is a powerhouse performance by Rebecca Hall, who builds a sympathetic character without betraying the integrity of the person who inspired it. |
| 247466 | Nicholas Bell | IONCINEMA.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2019-10-02T23:51:57.000Z | 2019-10-02 23:51:57 | Christine is an emotionally persuasive portrait of a human come undone, led expressively and memorably by Rebecca Hall. |
| 247467 | Michael J. Casey | Boulder Weekly | Fresh | — | 2019-08-06T23:11:05.000Z | 2019-08-06 23:11:05 | It may be written, it may be acted, directed and edited, but there is an unmistakable truth behind the camera. |
| 247468 | Marshall Shaffer | Movie Mezzanine | Fresh | — | 2019-04-20T13:30:32.000Z | 2019-04-20 13:30:32 | Hall convincingly charts her character's winding road of descent into madness and despair. |
| 247469 | Rachel Wagner | rachelsreviews.net | Fresh | B | 2019-04-02T21:11:11.000Z | 2019-04-02 21:11:11 | As you might guess this is a pretty grim, tragic film and I appreciate that writer Craig Shilowich did not add an ounce of sentimentality to the events of Christine. |
| 247470 | Phil Guie | Film-Forward.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2019-03-21T22:26:11.000Z | 2019-03-21 22:26:11 | Everyone's efforts would be lost if not for Rebecca Hall's lived-in portrayal of Chubbuck. Hers is a performance of subtle mannerisms. |
| 247471 | Rachel Brook | One Room With A View | Fresh | 4/5 | 2019-03-08T23:11:28.000Z | 2019-03-08 23:11:28 | It's a surprise with this subject matter, but Antonio Campos' Christine is deliciously witty. |
| 247472 | Matt Oakes | Silver Screen Riot | Fresh | B- | 2018-11-05T21:37:33.000Z | 2018-11-05 21:37:33 | takes a look at infamous Sarasota reporter Christine Chubbuck and her struggle with depression in sad, sanguine, cinematic streaks. |
| 247473 | Glenn Heath Jr. | San Diego CityBeat | Fresh | — | 2018-08-22T00:38:15.000Z | 2018-08-22 00:38:15 | Hall's brilliantly detailed performance reveals a woman being torn apart by repression and disappointment, as if her intestines had been replaced by barbed wire. |
| 247474 | Mae Abdulbaki | Punch Drunk Critics | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2018-08-14T19:37:47.000Z | 2018-08-14 19:37:47 | Although Rebecca Hall delivers a strong performance, Christine doesn't quite pull you in. |
| 247475 | Sarah Manvel | Critic's Notebook | Fresh | — | 2018-08-09T00:31:08.000Z | 2018-08-09 00:31:08 | The sense of standing in a maze, with every exit being closed off, permeates the film. |
| 247476 | Ellie Shechet | Jezebel | Fresh | — | 2018-06-13T01:10:43.000Z | 2018-06-13 01:10:43 | Three-dimensional, even warm, a feat considering its incredibly violent and theatrical central plot point. |
| 247477 | Kiko Martinez | San Antonio Current | Fresh | B+ | 2018-01-26T07:10:22.000Z | 2018-01-26 07:10:22 | Uncomfortably bleak, director Antonio Campos scrapes away at the agonizing details of Chubbuck's anguish stemming from her stunted personal and professional life to reveal a tortured soul. |
| 247478 | Daniel Gascó García | El antepenúltimo mohicano | Fresh | 4/5 | 2018-01-25T22:33:03.000Z | 2018-01-25 22:33:03 | ... we feel for a moment that this film looks at us, knows us, takes into account our presence on the other side of the mirror. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 247479 | Kristen Lopez | Culturess | Fresh | — | 2017-11-20T06:10:25.000Z | 2017-11-20 06:10:25 | Campos' film is a clinging, yearning look at one woman's mad desire for acceptance. |
| 247480 | Matthew Bond | The Mail on Sunday (UK) | Rotten | 3/5 | 2017-10-17T17:46:15.000Z | 2017-10-17 17:46:15 | Rebecca Hall has the misfortune to be extremely good in a film that always feels somewhat exploitative and too miserable to be a rewarding watch. |
| 247481 | Adam Nayman | Cinema Scope | Rotten | — | 2017-09-28T22:17:22.000Z | 2017-09-28 22:17:22 | A perfect exemplar of a bad good movie, Antonio Campos' Christine traps (an excellent) Rebecca Hall in a series of impeccably composed frames as the famously ill-fated Sarasota local news anchor Christine Chubbuck. |
| 247482 | David Keyes | Cinemaphile.org | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2017-09-12T05:35:27.000Z | 2017-09-12 05:35:27 | The guts of the movie are anchored in performances. |
| 247483 | Harry Readhead | metro.co.uk | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-09-06T00:06:22.000Z | 2017-09-06 00:06:22 | ... you'll feel that although you don't know why Christine Chubbuck did what she did, you do know a little more about her and her world, and that seems to be enough. |
| 247484 | Diane Carson | KDHX (St. Louis) | Fresh | — | 2017-08-30T00:26:02.000Z | 2017-08-30 00:26:02 | The film simply titled Christine offers an absorbing, at times mesmerizing, and ultimately mystifying character study. |
| 247485 | Candice Frederick | Reel Talk Online | Fresh | B+ | 2017-03-22T15:03:49.000Z | 2017-03-22 15:03:49 | It's a haunting reflection on the hopefulness of feminism for the 1970s working woman, which is also uncomfortably effective. And while Christine's death is a part of the conclusion of the narrative, it doesn't define it. |
| 247486 | Roe McDermott | Hot Press | Fresh | — | 2017-02-09T17:29:47.000Z | 2017-02-09 17:29:47 | Campos' deliberately still camerawork captures Christine's sense of discord, with the eerie calm of her surroundings emphasising her fitful depression. |
| 247487 | Jason Best | Movie Talk | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-02-07T12:15:12.000Z | 2017-02-07 12:15:12 | Rebecca Hall's Christine is not someone you would rush up to hug. Smart and driven, she is also abrasive, pushy and socially inept - qualities that [she] embodies in her performance with immense technical skill and heartbreaking empathy. |
| 247488 | David Parkinson | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-02-02T03:42:52.000Z | 2017-02-02 03:42:52 | Impeccably played by Rebecca Hall, this is a thoughtful reflection on life's casual cruelties and how little attitudes towards women have changed since Watergate. |
| 247489 | Wendy Ide | Observer (UK) | Fresh | 5/5 | 2017-01-29T06:55:33.000Z | 2017-01-29 06:55:33 | It's certainly the stronger of the two films that tackle Chubbuck's strange, sorry story. |
| 247490 | Tara Brady | Irish Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-01-27T13:35:57.000Z | 2017-01-27 13:35:57 | A compelling drama that is simultaneously respectful and provocative. |
| 247491 | Kate Muir | The Times (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-01-26T17:28:31.000Z | 2017-01-26 17:28:31 | With slow-burning, stomach-squeezing panic Rebecca Hall delivers a superb performance in Christine as the real-life American television reporter Christine Chubbuck. |
| 247492 | Trevor Johnston | Radio Times | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-01-26T16:47:08.000Z | 2017-01-26 16:47:08 | Campos's good intentions notwithstanding, there's still something uncomfortable - perhaps even exploitative - here, yet an absolutely mesmerising Rebecca Hall is clearly, deeply invested in the role. |
| 247493 | Allan Hunter | Daily Express (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-01-26T16:41:01.000Z | 2017-01-26 16:41:01 | Hall really gets under the skin of the character, offering a complex portrait of a woman who seems to be constantly on the verge of a breakdown. |
| 247494 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-01-26T16:26:33.000Z | 2017-01-26 16:26:33 | It is a dark, hypnotic, unsettling experience. |
| 247495 | Christina Newland | Little White Lies | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-01-26T09:51:53.000Z | 2017-01-26 09:51:53 | A disturbing, honest portrait of female neurosis and depression. |
| 247496 | Ed Whitfield | The Ooh Tray | Fresh | — | 2017-01-26T05:43:39.000Z | 2017-01-26 05:43:39 | It's a humane and empathetic treatment that Chubbuck might have endorsed. |
| 247497 | Tim Robey | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-01-26T04:49:06.000Z | 2017-01-26 04:49:06 | The film's compassion towards Chubbuck emanates from a star turn of huge sensitivity: Hall's version of her is a crumbling person, not a concept. |
| 247498 | Geoffrey Macnab | Independent (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2017-01-25T17:58:07.000Z | 2017-01-25 17:58:07 | Rebecca Hall gives an excellent performance as Christine, one that captures the character's mix of insecurity and ambition, her extreme reticence and her desire to be liked. |
| 247499 | Ben Nicholson | CineVue | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-01-24T02:55:55.000Z | 2017-01-24 02:55:55 | A knotty, funny, ambiguous character study with an exceptional turn from Rebecca Hall. |
| 247500 | James Mottram | Total Film | Fresh | 4/5 | 2017-01-23T11:57:09.000Z | 2017-01-23 11:57:09 | It's Rebecca Hall that arguably deserves the greatest praise; she practically devours her role in a way she's rarely, if ever, been allowed to do on screen before. |
| 247501 | Matt Shiverdecker | Austin American-Statesman | Fresh | — | 2017-01-20T16:07:09.000Z | 2017-01-20 16:07:09 | A heartfelt attempt at telling her story without feeling exploitative. |
| 247502 | Ryan Gilbey | New Statesman | Fresh | — | 2017-01-19T12:37:40.000Z | 2017-01-19 12:37:40 | That the film does break through is down to Hall, who illuminates the pain that Christine can't express, and to the score by Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans. |
| 247503 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Fresh | B | 2017-01-15T15:54:07.000Z | 2017-01-15 15:54:07 | This particular movie, based on a very famous suicide, is interesting, from a journalistic point of view, since the suicide itself is directly linked to journalism. The rest of it is just another typical movie suicide story. |
| 247504 | Tricia Olszewski | Washington City Paper | Fresh | — | 2017-01-02T14:29:26.000Z | 2017-01-02 14:29:26 | Campos doesn't sugarcoat it. None of Christine, in fact, is wrapped in sweetness -- it's all medicine. But its ability to grip you with its sadness and mourning offers something better: one woman's truth. |
| 247505 | Brad Keefe | Columbus Alive | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-12-30T19:39:37.000Z | 2016-12-30 19:39:37 | If you don't know the true story of Christine Chubbuck, the movie may be even more impactful. |
| 247506 | Derek Sanchez | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2016-12-08T18:47:50.000Z | 2016-12-08 18:47:50 | Christine never forgets its focus and lets the story speak for itself, even if it leaves some important details out. |
| 247507 | Michael A. Smith | MediaMikes | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2016-12-02T20:56:07.000Z | 2016-12-02 20:56:07 | "Christine" is the story of television personality Christine Chubbuck and is an in-depth look into a problem that was either misdiagnosed or just ignored: depression. |
| 247508 | Randall King | Winnipeg Free Press | Fresh | 3/5 | 2016-12-02T14:45:48.000Z | 2016-12-02 14:45:48 | Rebecca Hall's performance is a formidable piece of work, physically transforming herself to capture Chubbuck's dark, angular look and somewhat off-putting manner. |
| 247509 | Ken Eisner | Georgia Straight | Fresh | — | 2016-12-02T11:55:25.000Z | 2016-12-02 11:55:25 | [Christine] has a highly charged Rebecca Hall finding the bruises beneath a brittle surface. |
| 247510 | John Serba | MLive.com | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2016-11-29T08:06:49.000Z | 2016-11-29 08:06:49 | Rebecca Hall's performance in "Christine" is nothing less than mighty. |
| 247511 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | B | 2016-11-29T00:58:44.000Z | 2016-11-29 00:58:44 | Rebecca Hall is agonizingly good in this grim character study, based on a true story. |
| 247512 | Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-11-18T13:01:48.000Z | 2016-11-18 13:01:48 | Rebecca Hall gives one of the great performances of the year as the title character in Christine, an intense, stomach-churning, unblinking drama. |
| 247513 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-11-18T07:12:34.000Z | 2016-11-18 07:12:34 | [Rebecca Hall's] Christine isn't a hackneyed 'woman on the edge.' She is simply a woman trying to do her job ... and struggling with feelings of self-doubt and insecurity... |
| 247514 | Ray Pride | Newcity | Fresh | — | 2016-11-15T12:33:53.000Z | 2016-11-15 12:33:53 | Rebecca Hall plays the twenty-nine-year-old career woman, and her performance is akin to what Campos does as a filmmaker, filled with fierce concentration, ambitious and scatty, present yet plainly preoccupied. |
| 247515 | Sara Michelle Fetters | MovieFreak.com | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2016-11-11T11:23:55.000Z | 2016-11-11 11:23:55 | As for Rebecca Hall, she's flat-out astonishing. |
| 247516 | Jonathan W. Hickman | Daily Film Fix | Fresh | 7/10 | 2016-11-11T05:46:46.000Z | 2016-11-11 05:46:46 | A tour de force of performance and retro influenced directing and visual style, "Christine" is a small triumph. |
| 247517 | Josh Bell | Las Vegas Weekly | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2016-11-11T05:19:52.000Z | 2016-11-11 05:19:52 | As successful it is as a character study, the movie is also an effective look at the state of local TV news in the 1970s, with impeccable period detail. |
| 247518 | Marjorie Baumgarten | Austin Chronicle | Fresh | 3/5 | 2016-11-10T08:08:49.000Z | 2016-11-10 08:08:49 | Fascinating, troubling, and dutiful, Christine, if nothing else, houses a great performance [by Hall]. |
| 247519 | Robert Horton | HeraldNet (Everett, WA) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-11-08T10:16:13.000Z | 2016-11-08 10:16:13 | Captured with real authority by Rebecca Hall, who plays Christine and is the best reason for seeing the movie. |
| 247520 | J. Olson | Cinemixtape | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2016-11-04T11:28:36.000Z | 2016-11-04 11:28:36 | Suddenly, [Hall], who's always been a bright spot is an eclipse, crossing arduous emotional terrain with ease and finding moments of dignity and grace in mental illness. |
| 247521 | Tom Long | Detroit News | Fresh | A- | 2016-11-04T04:22:06.000Z | 2016-11-04 04:22:06 | Something of a tour de force for star Rebecca Hall who, in keeping with the film's approach, does so much while seeming to do so little. |
| 247522 | Sean P. Means | Salt Lake Tribune | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2016-11-03T15:44:14.000Z | 2016-11-03 15:44:14 | The real-life drama Christine has a well-polished facade, gleaming in 1970s period details, but only the movie's star seems able to get underneath that surface. |
| 247523 | Scott Marks | San Diego Reader | Rotten | 1/5 | 2016-11-03T12:21:29.000Z | 2016-11-03 12:21:29 | You'll need a shield to help deflect all the irony director Antonio Campos and screenwriter Craig Shilowich throw before the camera. |
| 247524 | Rafer Guzman | Newsday | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2016-11-03T11:41:36.000Z | 2016-11-03 11:41:36 | A gripping, often agonizing character study with a tour de force performance by Rebecca Hall. |
| 247525 | Moira MacDonald | Seattle Times | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2016-11-02T18:43:15.000Z | 2016-11-02 18:43:15 | "Christine" is based on true events, and I suspect it's all the more powerful if you don't know what happens at the end. I did, but the film still gripped me. |
| 247526 | Tirdad Derakhshani | Philadelphia Inquirer | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2016-10-27T10:38:00.000Z | 2016-10-27 10:38:00 | Rich in dramatic detail and psychological insight, the film approaches its protagonist with genuine concern. |
| 247527 | Richard Brody | The New Yorker | Fresh | — | 2016-10-24T04:11:40.000Z | 2016-10-24 04:11:40 | The narrow scope and narrow determinism of the action in "Christine" is unfortunately matched by the narrow-albeit immensely skillful and committed-acting that Campos elicits from Hall. |
| 247528 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 2/4 | 2016-10-21T11:04:41.000Z | 2016-10-21 11:04:41 | Christine ultimately concludes on a palpably anticlimactic note that's somewhat emblematic of the movie's wobbly execution... |
| 247529 | Andrea Thompson | The Young Folks | Fresh | 7/10 | 2016-10-21T11:01:38.000Z | 2016-10-21 11:01:38 | Christine will truly break your heart as it shows just how hard Chubbuck fought to step back from the brink. |
| 247530 | Anita Katz | San Francisco Examiner | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-10-21T10:44:30.000Z | 2016-10-21 10:44:30 | Hall's quietly extraordinary performance as a woman disconnected from the world she so desperately wants to glow in makes the movie worth seeing. |
| 247531 | Kristy Puchko | Nerdist | Fresh | — | 2016-10-21T04:14:31.000Z | 2016-10-21 04:14:31 | Hall delivers a portrayal that is riveting and nuanced but dedicatedly uncomfortable. |
| 247532 | Sherilyn Connelly | SF Weekly | Fresh | — | 2016-10-20T17:39:05.000Z | 2016-10-20 17:39:05 | In addition to being a terrific portrait of crippling social anxieties, Christine is a portrait of a bygone era that in many ways looks the same as ours. |
| 247533 | Justin Chang | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | — | 2016-10-20T12:46:32.000Z | 2016-10-20 12:46:32 | By turns coolly observed and disquietingly compassionate - qualities that also describe Rebecca Hall's brilliant central performance - the movie drifts alongside its subject, Charon-like, through the hell of her last weeks. |
| 247534 | Michael Sragow | Film Comment Magazine | Rotten | — | 2016-10-20T11:54:06.000Z | 2016-10-20 11:54:06 | The movie conveys her rage, rejection, and isolation, but unfortunately doubles down on the confusion. |
| 247535 | Michael O'Sullivan | Washington Post | Rotten | 2/4 | 2016-10-20T11:39:12.000Z | 2016-10-20 11:39:12 | A great performance does not necessarily make for great tragedy, and "Christine" remains mired in the minutiae of its portrait of a doomed, bitter young woman. |
| 247536 | Peter Keough | Boston Globe | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2016-10-20T04:33:28.000Z | 2016-10-20 04:33:28 | Grim, timely, but not quite fully thought through ... |
| 247537 | Stephanie Zacharek | TIME Magazine | Fresh | — | 2016-10-20T04:14:10.000Z | 2016-10-20 04:14:10 | Christine has every chance of going wrong-of courting, wittingly or not, the interest of gruesome curiosity seekers. But this is a case where one performance can make all the difference-and Rebecca Hall's does. |
| 247538 | Stephen Mayne | Under the Radar | Fresh | 7.5/10 | 2016-10-19T09:27:59.000Z | 2016-10-19 09:27:59 | Hall and the rigid focus on Christine create a compelling central figure. |
| 247539 | Rene Rodriguez | Miami Herald | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2016-10-19T07:04:59.000Z | 2016-10-19 07:04:59 | The movie gets to you: It's absorbing and uncomfortable at the same time, as if it were giving you a glimpse at the unknowable. |
| 247540 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Fresh | — | 2016-10-17T14:12:22.000Z | 2016-10-17 14:12:22 | Bolstered by Rebecca Hall's excellent performance and some evocative period re-creation, it's a compelling character-driven glimpse into the media culture of the time. |
| 247541 | Anthony Lane | The New Yorker | Fresh | — | 2016-10-17T04:20:04.000Z | 2016-10-17 04:20:04 | Striding through this, and commanding almost every scene, is Rebecca Hall, who earns our sympathy, as the best actors do, by steeling herself not to plead for it. |
| 247542 | Pete Hammond | Deadline Hollywood Daily | Fresh | 4/5 | 2016-10-16T22:00:31.000Z | 2016-10-16 22:00:31 | A brilliant performance by Rebecca Hall powers this fascinating true and tragic story of a local news reporter teetering on the edge. |
| 247543 | Erika W. Smith | Bust Magazine | Fresh | 3/5 | 2016-10-14T16:22:55.000Z | 2016-10-14 16:22:55 | Rebecca Hall's performance is incredible. Her Christine is awkward, full of nervous energy, and impossible to look away from. But Campos missed an opportunity to fully explore Christine's mental-health challenges. |
| 247544 | Chris Knight | National Post | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-10-14T15:34:52.000Z | 2016-10-14 15:34:52 | Even 40 years on, the events of July 1974 will send a chill through your bones at the conclusion to this story. |
| 247545 | Robert Levin | amNewYork | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2016-10-14T15:07:15.000Z | 2016-10-14 15:07:15 | The movie offers a portrait of a woman in full, played by Hall with the sort of fervent conviction that earns awards attention. |
| 247546 | Sheila O'Malley | RogerEbert.com | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2016-10-14T14:37:50.000Z | 2016-10-14 14:37:50 | There are questions of exploitation that nag throughout, as well as a queasy feeling that we the audience are participating in exploiting this troubled woman all over again. |
| 247547 | Leonard Maltin | leonardmaltin.com | Fresh | — | 2016-10-14T12:03:55.000Z | 2016-10-14 12:03:55 | The film doesn't pretend to offer answers or solutions, nor is it a cautionary tale: it is a straightforward dramatization of this unfortunate woman's life and it is spine-tinglingly good. |
| 247548 | Peter Rainer | Christian Science Monitor | Fresh | B+ | 2016-10-14T08:17:49.000Z | 2016-10-14 08:17:49 | Hall gives us Chubbuck in all her vehement contradictoriness. |
| 247549 | Keith Phipps | Uproxx | Fresh | — | 2016-10-14T08:08:54.000Z | 2016-10-14 08:08:54 | It treats Christine's tragedy as a question without an answer, letting it play out and leaving us to wonder what it all means, and contemplate how over 40 years later we're no closer to finding an answer. |
| 247550 | Kurt Loder | Reason Online | Fresh | — | 2016-10-14T06:43:17.000Z | 2016-10-14 06:43:17 | This might have been an even grimmer exercise than it is-and be advised, it really is grim-were it not for Rebecca Hall's powerful, self-effacing performance. |
| 247551 | Johanna Schneller | Globe and Mail | Fresh | 3/4 | 2016-10-14T03:59:31.000Z | 2016-10-14 03:59:31 | Hall creates a fierce, uncompromising portrait of a woman who was prescient enough to see the dark places her culture was headed - the logical end game of our "if it bleeds, it leads" obsessions - but also damaged enough to succumb to them. |
| 247552 | Manohla Dargis | New York Times | Fresh | — | 2016-10-13T17:01:59.000Z | 2016-10-13 17:01:59 | Ms. Hall's performance makes you believe that something profound is at stake, the movie noncommittally nibbles at the edge of larger meaning, nodding at current events. |
| 247553 | Scott Tobias | NPR | Fresh | — | 2016-10-13T14:47:11.000Z | 2016-10-13 14:47:11 | As much as it signals the dawn of a more exploitative brand of journalism, the film also sees Christine as the victim of a sexist newsroom culture that punished women of substance. |
| 247554 | J. R. Jones | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2016-10-13T13:09:23.000Z | 2016-10-13 13:09:23 | Hall transcends these narrow topical concerns by presenting the charmless, insecure, morbidly depressed reporter as a complex and irreducible personality. |
| 247555 | Miriam Bale | The New Republic | Fresh | — | 2016-10-13T12:42:44.000Z | 2016-10-13 12:42:44 | Hall finds Chubbuck through the strange way she ends her sentences, her awkward laugh. It's an endearing and haunting performance ... |
| 247556 | Kenji Fujishima | Paste Magazine | Rotten | 6.3/10 | 2016-10-13T11:52:44.000Z | 2016-10-13 11:52:44 | Even at its most involving, though, Christine never quite banishes the nagging question one might have about what the ultimate point of this whole enterprise is. |
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