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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    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Christopher Machell
    12 Angry Men
    Although 12 Angry Men dismays at human weakness, it is fundamentally an optimistic film, celebrating reason and basic human decency in equal measure. In an era when both seem in short supply, Lumet’s film is a reminder that there is never a bad time to stand up for what is right.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Machell
    Rebel Without a Cause
    Even the film’s weaknesses – a penchant for melodrama and a tendency towards the hysterical – work as remnants of their time and betray an earnest effort to emphasise with the characters and their heightened do-or-die mentality.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Christopher Machell
    A Raisin in the Sun
    At once a searing, affirming and defiant portrayal of race, poverty and frustrated aspiration in America.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 60 Christopher Machell
    The Awful Truth
    The film lacks the crackle of Grant’s later masterpieces yet there remains a great deal to enjoy here with an ending that surprises with its tenderness, not-so-subtle eroticism and visual wit.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 100 Christopher Machell
    Inherit the Wind
    A searing indictment of religious fundamentalism and anti-intellectualism. Inherit the Wind’s relevance continues beyond its immediate parallels with McCarthyism.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Christopher Machell
    The Harder They Come
    The Harder They Come‘s two defining traits – violence and style – inform almost all of Ivan’s behaviour as he adopts the fashions and nihilism of the heroes of American and European cinema. Yet the world around him remains dully ambivalent and cruel in ways more complex and unpredictable than the characters he replicates.
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