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Metascore
19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The Film StageDaniel SchindelThe Film StageDaniel SchindelAs an exploration of identity as it is felt, projected, and interpreted, this is masterful.
- 100Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenIt movingly posits acting as a metaphor for the search for connection, through visceral texture rather than platitude.
- 100The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyThe new movie by Robert Greene is a tour de force in the blending and bending of genres.
- 91The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThe PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThere's a tangible sensitivity to Kate Plays Christine that is constantly present as the project explores two personas and a gamut of topics (gender politics, gun control, and depression among them).
- 90The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyA fascinating process movie about acting and storytelling, but also a curious meta-contemplation of our own voyeuristic attraction to tragedy.
- 80The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanGreene makes it clear early on that his interests lie less with a news report than with what Werner Herzog dubbed “ecstatic truth”. The dial swerves between “catching something” to “clearly rehearsed” and back again, and all to the betterment of the final project.
- 70Screen DailyGraham FullerScreen DailyGraham FullerRobert Greene’s latest fusion of reality and meta-fiction is fiercely intelligent, but inescapably tars itself with the ghoulishness it critiques.
- 67ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerMuch of Kate Plays Christine is more of a form exercise than it is a documentary portrait, which works to both the film’s benefit and detriment.