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

| Jun 13, 2018

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

Neither tribute nor analysis, this doc offers an inappropriately off-beam treatment for such a serious subject.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2016

It's troubling, ambiguous, at times queasily unsettling, and an experience that is hard to shake off.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2016

This meta-doc is sorely and maddeningly lacking testimonies from those who were close to Chubbuck.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2016

You admire the diligence and thoughtfulness of the director and the actress but you still doubt their motives.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2016

Hysterically pretentious.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 13, 2016

Odd, atmospheric, if gimmicky ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2016

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

| Oct 13, 2016

Greene's humane form of inside-out documentary isn't just interested in technical questions about the medium - it offers a whispered reminder that we're all out there on our own, and perhaps we should try and embrace that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2016

"Kate Plays Christine" makes for a twisty, unsettling probe into our fascination with transforming lives, and deaths, into digestible storytelling.

| Sep 15, 2016

A documentary Vertigo, Robert Greene's re-creation of a woman who fell to her inner demons -- something of a ghost story -- feels dangerous. It pokes the bear, then slaps it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2016

Some movies blur the lines separating fiction and nonfiction, performers and characters. Kate Plays Christine makes those lines the whole show.

| Original Score: B | Aug 24, 2016

Greene and Sheil unearth a number of important clues without suggesting that any of them can explain everything

| Aug 24, 2016

Whenever the leading lady is talking to us and to herself, contemplating the work and what it means, the movie is riveting and unique.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 24, 2016

Muses intriguingly about the boundaries between actors playing themselves and fictional characters in front of a camera.

| Aug 23, 2016

Greene's strategy is to be ironically inept: His nonfiction wanderings with Sheil feel halfhearted, but the attempts at scenes dramatizing Chubbuck are intentionally awful, staged like amateur soap opera and written in cheap clichés.

| Aug 23, 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 a more holistic and sympathetic portrait of Chubbuck than any straight fiction could ever hope to.

| Aug 22, 2016

"We are a society of gawkers," asserts one newsperson as Sheil wrestles with the task at hand. By the end of Kate Plays Christine, Greene seems to argue that we're all complicit in that indictment.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 22, 2016

A tour de force in the blending and bending of genres.

| Aug 22, 2016