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- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: Soderbergh’s last three films — Presence, Black Bag, and now The Christophers — have nothing in common other than the expert filmmaker helming all of them. When you can make a ghost story, a spy film, and a small film about artists equally interesting, you know you’re doing something right.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Soderbergh delivers his best film since “Traffic.” Casting Coel and McKellen was inspired, two actors of different generations and backgrounds who are simply dazzling paired together.
- Nell Minow @
- Excerpt: McKellan and Coel have a crackling chemistry and play off each other, his dancing around, deflecting, his trying to be shocking, her steady intelligence. And it reflects a very deep understanding of the world of art, the people who create it, struggling to realize their visions — to capture them, in both senses of the word.
- [New] | Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Eighty minutes of a woman stoically staring as a man loquaciously and often inanely vomits dialogue to no end. The other twenty are some of the most unforgettable and legitimately heartfelt moments of human connection you’ll see all year.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Ian McKellen is phenomenal in ‘The Christophers’ – and Michaela Coel more than holds her own – a film that manages to be both thematically rich and genuinely crowd-pleasing. What begins as a professional collision in the art world gradually turns into something more personal, more complicated. It’s one of Steven Soderbergh’s more restrained, human-scale efforts, and it’s all the better for it.
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