John Carpenter does a workmanlike job on this King adaptation, which suffers from thin characters (especially the female "lead"). Still the car has a ton of personality and the homoeroticism between the boys is welcome

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2025

...a watchable yet rarely enthralling adaptation of Stephen King’s superior (and decidedly overlong) 1983 novel...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 7, 2025

Christine offers a nuanced and aesthetically vibrant counterpoint to nostalgia-laden films of the mid-1980s.

| Jun 5, 2024

A first-rate horror film that absolutely nails King’s nostalgic small-town aesthetic while doing a superb job of actually making an engaging thriller out of an evil car.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 4, 2024

An intriguing mix of Stephen King and John Carpenter that doesn’t always live up to the book but holds up as a relic of 1980s teen horror.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 27, 2024

Christine is a perfectly enjoyable tale of the macabre, which can be read as a satirical parable of that particularly male kind of arrested development which manifests itself in car obsession.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2023

Alas, Christine, as on its release — although meticulously shot and edited by the director, John Carpenter — is troubled by a single insuperable problem. The car just isn’t scary.

| Oct 12, 2023

This macabre story of a boy and his car is a film that you "auto" avoid. For one thing, the plot is in need of a lube job.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2023

Christine is a very slick and polished affair with crisp cinematography and superb sound editing utilizing a great selection of 50's rock and a roll.

| May 13, 2023

This "Carrie on wheels" is driving (thanks to Gordon's performance), but it's hardly in the same league as Psycho.

| May 12, 2023

Cinematically, the possibilities are enormous and Carpenter is equal to the occasion. Some of the visuals are eye-popping.

| May 12, 2023

But hidden within this high-octane horror story is a deeper tale of love and friendship in the waning days of adolescence. Arnie must battle competing forces telling him what it means to be a man and how he should treat the women in his life.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2023

We don't really care much about its possible perversity nor do we feel any affection for its victims. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 18, 2020

If the '80s were partially defined by revenge-of-the-nerd narratives, Christine is more about the horror of the geek-id unleashed.

| Sep 5, 2019

One of the more effective screen treatments of the era, however corny or preposterous it may remain on paper.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2019

Between the smartest effects and Gordon's canny performance, [Christine] is more diverting than the material probably deserves.

| Jan 29, 2019

I love Carpenter, and I like Christine well enough, but I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I am about other King films.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 26, 2016

Relatively artless when compared to several other King adaptations around the time (Carrie, The Shining, The Dead Zone) or even with Carpenter's previous picture (1982's career-best The Thing), the film still delivers the goods as entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2015

Christine shows us what great filmmakers can do with flawed material, and how even their greatness can't solve every problem.

| Original Score: C | Dec 9, 2013

Proves Carpenter's mastery of both mood and the widescreen frame.

| Original Score: B | Apr 14, 2011