Review of Christine (2016) by Daniel P — 07 Sep 2018

Standout performance by Rebecca Hall, but unfortunately the fill-in-the-blanks scenes (relationship with mother, love interest in co-worker, etc.) mostly came off like Lifetime. I also didn't like that Christine's decline was laid largely at the feet of her inability to have children--perhaps that was truly the largest factor in the real person's struggle, but it's a trope that's overused and feels rather reductive to see in film again and again.

Also--and I don't know how you'd avoid this--the tension in the film can't be sustained if you know anything about it. The ending was shown in the trailer, and to get audiences interested at all I do understand why it would have to be.

An imperfect yet ambitious film with just a little more in the positive column than the negative, which again is largely thanks to Hall.