Kate Plays Christine finds itself at the at intersection of reality and performance art, but no matter how fabricated the precursor, the emotional core remains intact and exceptionally powerful.

| Aug 1, 2023

The actress’s discomfort pales beside her subjects: it is a film about the fundamentally uncinematic (because tough to externalize) subject of depression, and it crept under my skin.

| Jan 18, 2023

It's not even a character study. They are after the process of an actress trying to connect with her subject. It's also about the nature of performances and giving another layer of complexities in portraying real life characters.

| Jul 17, 2020

The [lure] of a gory spectacle is what keeps us slogging through this two-hour circular meditation, ... to showcase Greene's ability to manipulate viewers into self-disgust[.]

| Jun 30, 2020

Kate Play Christine is as delicate as it is tough, and it's a worthy glimpse into the hearts and minds of those who attempt to capture life from many different angles.

| Apr 28, 2020

There are moments where the film can feel aimless or messy, but it's difficult to criticize an inherently flawed design.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 22, 2019

Along with the possible foreshadowing, there is a palpable sense of foreboding, thanks to the use of a moody synthesizer. Meanwhile, the cinematography is frequently washed out...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2019

It's a fascinating insight into the modern "method acting" you hear discussed all the time, but rarely see. What's disappointing is the lack of depth.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2019

It doesn't sensationalize Chubbuck's death and yet it is sensational.

| Nov 8, 2018

Everyone ... is questioned for what we choose to see, and why we refuse to let some ghosts rest.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 5, 2018

Much like its tortured subject, the film is an enigma of contradictory interpretations that could explode with rage on a moment's notice.

| Aug 22, 2018

Sheil is never less than heroic in her multi-faceted quest for truth in all its uncomfortable guises.

| Jun 13, 2018

Kate Plays Christine is a story about our tendency to distort stories, and it questions our right to tell them at all.

| Jun 13, 2018

Blurring the line between narrative and non-fiction, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine is a magnetic tale of investigation.

| Aug 8, 2017

This may all sound intriguing on paper, but in practice it's often dull and strained, and we get the queasy sense that this woman, likable enough, is beating herself up doing something that "Kate Plays Christine" essentially says is not worth doing.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 13, 2017

Sometimes over-infatuated with its own meta stratagems though it may be, Kate Plays Christine's machinery of wheels is always cranking vigorously.

| Mar 20, 2017

Since I already knew the basic plot from the previous movie I'd seen about this event ('Christine') this seemed a bit boring, right up until the scene where Kate is supposed to pretend to kill herself on camera. Then, everything changed. Wow!

| Original Score: B | Jan 19, 2017

Robert Greene's film follows the actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares to play Chubbuck in a project that's part documentary, part fiction and a bit too much navel-gazing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2016

The movie has been praised as a genre-bending experiment, though it's more like a bottom-feeding exploitation movie masquerading as an art film.

| Dec 8, 2016

Thought in action, ideas in motion and also the portrayal of a slippery, frightening slide down a rabbit hole of hurt... The story is what is true and what is false, and it's all true and it's all false... Ghosts. Ghosts everywhere.

| Dec 6, 2016