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By Miriam Bale (64) for The New Republic (897) on 12 Oct 2016

Kate Plays Christine proves to be nothing but a ghost story…

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By Hannah Mcgill (136) for The List (2,018) on 09 Oct 2016

We watch as Sheil struggles to close in on a real person to whom she bears little resemblance and about whom close to nothing is known…

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By Josh Slater-Williams (157) for The Skinny (809) on 09 Oct 2016

A thoroughly disturbing cinematic experience: non-fiction filmmaking by way of psychological thriller…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Sep 2016

Although Greene swerves unnecessarily into obvious audience indictment at the end, Kate Plays Christine makes for a twisty, unsettling probe…

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By Mallory Andrews (58) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 25 Aug 2016

Kate's transformation shifts from merely documenting a process to questioning the motives behind it…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 24 Aug 2016

This isn’t a straight documentary — part of what makes the film so suggestive is the idea that we’re seeing a double performance pitted…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Film Experience (395) on 24 Aug 2016

It's one of the year's greatest achievements…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 23 Aug 2016

It's a movie at war with itself, and rightly so, because any attempt it makes to reimagine Christine Chubbuck's life is, on some level, ethically…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 23 Aug 2016

There’s an emotional dimension to Kate Plays Christine—an empathy linking an actor to the human headline she’s dressing up as—that’s…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 23 Aug 2016

I would simultaneously argue that Sheil and Greene go off the rails several times during Kate Plays Christine, most notably in their overly…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 23 Aug 2016

The process of transformation is the story, and the story truly belongs to the artist…

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By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 Aug 2016

Kate Plays Christine is a documentary, but often a totally fake one, cheekily defining itself as its own making-of DVD supplement and documenting…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 22 Aug 2016

The film’s method of circling around its subject, then closing in at the end, feels coy and withholding, as if Mr…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 21 Aug 2016

Sheil is an ideal vessel for the film's inquisitive style…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Aug 2016

A fascinating process movie about acting and storytelling, but also a curious meta-contemplation of our own voyeuristic attraction to tragedy…

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By Jordan Cronk (30) for Sight and Sound (827) on 21 Aug 2016

By burrowing past the more sensational aspects of Chubbuck's story to the more troubling nuances of her psyche, Greene and Sheil have a fashioned…

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By Ben Nicholson (124) for CineVue (2,163) on 21 Aug 2016

Greene seeks a deeper truth amidst the fragments of arch drama and investigatory reportage; artifice and reality bleed into one another with…

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By Richard Brody (868) for New Yorker (1,403) on 21 Aug 2016

The new movie by Robert Greene is a tour de force in the blending and bending of genres…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Aug 2016

It movingly posits acting as a metaphor for the search for connection, through visceral texture rather than platitude…

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By Dan Schindel (235) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 Feb 2016

Among many other smart choices, Greene and his crew have constructed this movie like a horror picture…

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