Christopher Machell

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For 344 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 8.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Christopher Machell's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 74
Highest review score: 100 Playground
Lowest review score: 20 Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 230 out of 344
  2. Mixed: 110 out of 344
  3. Negative: 4 out of 344
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    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Christopher Machell
    Maya
    There are few outright surprises in Maya, and though things proceed roughly as we might expect there is a deeper sort of emotional revelation that comes from letting the story proceed on its own terms.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Machell
    Night of the Creeps
    A faultlessly fun genre picture.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Machell
    Una
    Una is undoubtedly a difficult watch, and its moral ambivalence may be beyond the pale for some. But the sensitivity with which it treats its subjects and the nuance that the film brings to the most incendiary of debates is admirable.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 20 Christopher Machell
    A Glitch in the Matrix
    A Glitch in the Matrix’s incuriosity and unstructured approach to its material at best mirror its subjects’ modes of thinking; at worst, it is little more than a voyeuristic freak show.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Christopher Machell
    Abigail
    It’s not that Abigail is terrible: all its pieces slip together where they should, but its for all its excessive violence and gore it is a dull, lifeless experience.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 40 Christopher Machell
    Sputnik
    No amount of tight corridors and shots of CCTV monitors ever make protagonist Tatyana feel in peril: this, far more than derivative monsters and confusing themes, is Sputnik’s fatal error.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Machell
    Scream VI
    Six films in, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett deserve credit for crafting two set pieces that manage to emphasise their characters’ vulnerability and paralysing fear in surprising and unique ways.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Machell
    Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
    One of Birds of Prey’s great pleasures is that it tells a Gotham story without having to tell the Gotham story: the adventures of Harley Quinn and associates are not at the centre of some grand narrative, and they are all the better for it.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Christopher Machell
    Bitch Ass
    Bitch Ass is an off-the-shelf genre flick with some decent ideas and a fun cast, sadly lacking in sufficient inspiration or originality to merit recommendation.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Machell
    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
    Is Raimi’s latest effort as rich as Spider-Man 2, as revolutionary as The Evil Dead or as fun as Drag Me to Hell? No. But within the self-imposed confines of the studio machine, Multiverse of Madness is about as entertaining as it’s possible to be.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Machell
    XY Chelsea
    Hawkins smartly keeps the details of Mannings’ leaks – both in their content and the manner of their distribution – to a tight segment at the film’s mid-point. The effect is to create space for the film to explore something altogether messier and contentious – Manning’s identities as a trans woman and a political activist, and the problematic, even dangerous, ways that her private self and public persona relate.
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