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Movie Reviews by Christopher Machell - Page 7 of 17

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Review of Spaceship Earth (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 13 Jul 2020

Spaceship Earth deftly captures the sincere wonder and optimism of those who believed in the project…

Review of Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 09 Jul 2020

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ vérité style belies a quasi-staged reality that challenges the distinction between fiction and documentary,…

Review of On the Record (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 25 Jun 2020

On the Record is at once a heartbreaking account of the survival of a group of courageous women, an analysis of the structural and cultural…

Review of Guest of Honour (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 18 Jun 2020

Buried underneath the convolutions, the mistaking of melodramatic sensationalism over psychological reality, there really is something of a…

Review of Da 5 Bloods (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 14 Jun 2020

Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods is not only his best recent film, but also one of the most vital of the year…

Review of The Assistant (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 30 Apr 2020

Quietly raging, The Assistant is a bleakly precise study of complicity in workplace abuse…

Review of The Assistant (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 30 Apr 2020

Quietly raging, The Assistant is a bleakly precise study of complicity in workplace abuse…

Review of Sea Fever (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 09 Apr 2020

Sea Fever proves better in concept than in execution, let down by a second act of fumbled editing and slackened tension…

Review of The Other Lamb (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 02 Apr 2020

A visceral, Atwoodian journey, The Other Lamb is as much an examination of narcissism and the existing structures of gendered power as it is…

Review of The Invisible Man (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 27 Feb 2020

By situating the film in the context of domestic abuse, Whannel avoids cliché by evoking the way that distressed women are routinely treated…

Review of Little Joe (2019)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 26 Feb 2020

Read as a loose adaptation of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Little Joe is a gripping and visually striking satire of essentialist maternal…

Review of Emma (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 12 Feb 2020

This version of Emma. is unlikely to win any accolades for invention…

Review of Emma (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 12 Feb 2020

This version of Emma. is unlikely to win any accolades for invention…

Review of Emma. (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 12 Feb 2020

This version of Emma. is unlikely to win any accolades for invention…

Review of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 10 Feb 2020

One of Birds of Prey’s great pleasures is that it tells a Gotham story without having to tell the Gotham story: the adventures of Harley…

Review of Queen & Slim (2019)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 30 Jan 2020

Queen & Slim is consciously political – powerfully so – but it is simple human survival that drives the two protagonists…

Review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 21 Dec 2019

The Rise of Skywalker offers us nothing but toadying supplication to the worst aspects of fan culture…

Review of Citizen K (2019)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 19 Dec 2019

In all this, there is an implicit if undeveloped criticism of the way that power and capital are so often the spoils of posturing masculine…

Review of Cave Rescue (2019)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 10 Dec 2019

The Cave is a raw, urgent film about one of the great humanitarian crimes of our times, made all the starker for the utter lack of a global response…

Review of The Cave (2019)

By Christopher Machell (333) for CineVue (2,163) on 10 Dec 2019

The Cave is a raw, urgent film about one of the great humanitarian crimes of our times, made all the starker for the utter lack of a global response…

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