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Christopher Machell

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Christopher Machell is a writer and editor at CineVue. He is interested in all aspects of film culture but specializes in horror and genre cinema. Christopher has also written for The Skinny, The Quietus, Little White Lies and the BFI. Find him @Dr_Machell

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Blood Rage (1987) 73% 3/5 “Blood Rage is cheap, daft and irresistibly entertaining. Poorly shot, badly acted and lazily conceived, it is a terrifically entertaining and gory thrill-ride and at 82 minutes, never out-stays its welcome. ” – CineVue Oct 8, 2024 Full Review Challengers (2024) 88% 4/5 “A fantastically well constructed film with a star-making performance at its centre. Not quite a masterpiece, Guadagnino holds back from fully embracing the potential of his film’s eroticism and style, but Challengers is nevertheless a worthy contender.” – CineVue May 10, 2024 Full Review Abigail (2024) 83% 2/5 “A horror-comedy of sorts, Abigail has a great deal of bloody schlock and post-post modern humour with a screenplay penned by Guy Busick and Stephen Shields. Sadly neither are enough to muster shrieks of fear or humour.” – CineVue Apr 24, 2024 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% 4/5 “Civil War, though imperfect, is a biting, satirical blockbuster that is as much about the alienation of modern media as it is about imagining a second American Civil War.” – CineVue Apr 17, 2024 Full Review Ferrari (2023) 72% 3/5 “There is much to enjoy here, and much reaching for depth, particularly with the scenes that deal with the death of the Ferraris’ son, yet that depth is too often only glimpsed before slipping around the next bend in the road.” – CineVue Dec 28, 2023 Full Review Trenque Lauquen: Part II (2022) 100% 4/5 “Like the best film noir, with which this in undoubtedly in dialogue, Trenque Lauquen is a film about affect and textural cohesion moreso than logic and catharsis.” – CineVue Dec 11, 2023 Full Review Trenque Lauquen: Part I (2022) 96% 4/5 “Argentinian director Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen is an enigmatic, semi-absurdist puzzle that defies the allure of narrative solution in favour of the liberation of loose ends.” – CineVue Dec 11, 2023 Full Review Plan 75 (2022) 94% 4/5 “This is strong work for a debut feature, and while not presenting assisted suicide itself with the greatest of nuance, Plan 75 is an accomplished portrait of capitalist alienation.” – CineVue Dec 8, 2023 Full Review R.M.N. (2022) 97% 4/5 “In its depiction of a part of Europe struggling to keep up with neoliberalism, R.M.N. exposes the dark mirror of liberal, globalised western European metropolitanism.” – CineVue Sep 26, 2023 Full Review Rotting in the Sun (2023) 82% 4/5 “More than a casual swipe at modern social trends, Rotting in the Sun exposes a kind of cruelty, alienation, and social stratification that is only as modern as the technology through which it expresses itself.” – CineVue Sep 19, 2023 Full Review Passages (2023) 95% 4/5 “A pointed, revealing study of selfishness and an all-too familiar portrait of emotional indulgence, bolstered by three excellent lead performances.” – CineVue Sep 5, 2023 Full Review The Innocent (2022) 98% 4/5 “Garrel’s The Innocent deftly mixes comic family melodrama with genre thrills in this pacy, emotive thriller with a killer cast.” – CineVue Aug 24, 2023 Full Review Afire (2023) 91% 4/5 “German director Christian Petzold’s latest is a tense, emotionally fraught drama, layered with smouldering internal conflict that by its incendiary close invariably catches alight. ” – CineVue Aug 24, 2023 Full Review Lie with Me (2022) 97% 4/5 “A study of identity reconciled too late. In examining the reflexive, redemptive power of fiction, Lie with Me is a moving story of love lost to time.” – CineVue Aug 19, 2023 Full Review L'immensità (2022) 85% 4/5 “There is a vitality and a quiet defiance to this kind of filmmaking that is difficult to resist.” – CineVue Aug 14, 2023 Full Review A Song for Imogene (2023) 86% 2/5 “American writer-director Erika Arlee’s debut feature showcases strong performances and nice visual flourishes, but A Song for Imogene struggles to find an emotional hook.” – CineVue Aug 2, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% 4/5 “Regardless of Mattel’s corporate intentions, Gerwig has crafted a warm, funny and cinematically rich film -- if one whose narrative and political ambitions are far less radical than it would like us to suppose. ” – CineVue Jul 24, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% 4/5 “A fascinating and accomplished cinematic object, but as a study of greatness, Oppenheimer’s subject is often obscured by its author’s auteurist preoccupations.” – CineVue Jul 24, 2023 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% 4/5 “Dead Reckoning almost by default easily outclasses every other non-animated action film this year, with the much-touted bike-to-parachute stunt just as deranged and thrilling as anything else Cruise has attempted in the series to date. ” – CineVue Jul 13, 2023 Full Review The Damned Don't Cry (2022) 90% 4/5 “An intense simmering of emotion, underscored by Selim and Fatima-Zahra’s unbearable emotional and material precarity.” – CineVue Jul 10, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 70% 3/5 “The Last Crusade will always be the natural ending to the series, but if we must have another last one, Dial of Destiny is about as fitting a final entry as we could hope for, if a minor one.” – CineVue Jun 29, 2023 Full Review 8 A.M. Metro (2023) 78% 2/5 “The blandness of the spouses remain but with little dimension, while the leads’ likeability is so doe-eyed and soft-edged as to require regular injections of rote narrative contrivance in place of genuine emotional conflict.” – CineVue Jun 26, 2023 Full Review The Flash (2023) 63% 2/5 “A basically entertaining, but flimsy and shallow object, The Flash may not be the final entry in this long-beleaguered franchise, but it might as well be.” – CineVue Jun 15, 2023 Full Review Medusa Deluxe (2022) 71% 4/5 “A gripping, dizzyingly stylish thriller. With a tightly-woven plot, dazzling cinematography and a razor-sharp cast of characters, Medusa Deluxe is Brit neo-noir at its knotty best.” – CineVue Jun 13, 2023 Full Review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 95% 4/5 “Across the Spider-Verse is bigger, bolder and grander than its predecessor, and with little serious competition from Marvel or DC’s live-action factories, looks set to be the best superhero film of the year.” – CineVue Jun 5, 2023 Full Review
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