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Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Events leading to journalist Christine Chubbuck's 1974 on-air suicide are recounted in Christine (2016), a bleak but potent film written by Craig Shilowich and directed by Antonio Campos. Strong performances by its lead actors and its visual authenticity make Christine the best overlooked film of 2016.Christine Chubbuck (Rebecca Hall) is a sincere but troubled woman working as a reporter for a local news station in Sarasota, Florida. She lives with her mother, Peg (J. Smith-Cameron), and performs puppet shows at a children's hospital on the weekends. Her life begins to spiral out of control when, approaching 30, she discovers she has a cyst on one of her ovaries and may never have children.Her boss, Michael (Tracy Letts), is concerned about falling ratings and wants Christine to cover more sensational stories. This professional dilemma is compounded by the arrival of station owner Bob Andersen (John Cullum), who wants to move some personnel to Baltimore. Christine is passed over in favor of anchor George Peter Ryan (Michael C. Hall) and sports anchor Andrea Kirby (Kim Shaw). This is a double-blow because Christine had an unrequited crush on George.I won't reveal how the film ends, but you probably already guessed. Rebecca Hall, who also starred in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) and The Dinner (2017), is outstanding as Christine Chubbuck, and won several awards for her effort. I'm not sure this film would have been nearly as good without her performance. She disappeared into the role, bringing her character to life with all the emotion and idiosyncrasies of a real person.This film's authenticity is also incredible. If you could somehow capture the look and feel of a decade, Christine does it. 1970s period pieces usually feature larger than life characters and situations. This film does the exact opposite-it shows normal people at a normal job, who happened to be involved in an incredibly tragic incident.But Christine is not entirely accurate. The film depicts Christine living with her mother, which was true, but her older brother also lived with them. I can't recall any mention of her siblings in the film. Also, in the film, Christine procrastinates getting a cyst removed from her ovary, but in real life she had the surgery a year prior to her suicide. Neither of these alterations negatively affect the film. The filmmakers needed to show how the surgery affected her in the run-up to her suicide, which would have been difficult if it occurred months before the events depicted in the movie.Christine confronts an issue in journalism that continues to be debated to this day. In the film, Christine is constantly butting heads with her boss over the definition of news. Michael is concerned about their station's low ratings and wants her to focus on more controversial stories. Christine doesn't think reporting on stories that interest people is real journalism.The push to report on crime and disaster deeply conflicts with Christine's self-image, and she frames her suicide as a statement against sensationalism in news. "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in 'blood and guts', and in living color, you are going to see another first-attempted suicide," she says before she pulls a pistol and shoots herself behind her right ear.The message couldn't be any clearer, but don't expect Christine to spoon-feed you answers. The movie is like a snapshot of one moment in time. We don't know how Christine's family and coworkers deal with the tragedy, or whether it affects that station's approach to the news. Its open-endedness enhances the film's final impact.

I have to start by saying that all the negative reviews calling the film "boring," "too slow," or "uninteresting" must have been submitted by people who have not experienced this kind of mental illness first hand. I have, and the way this story was told hit the nail on the head. This film may be uncomfortable for some to watch due to the subject matter, but the slow, grinding, gutwrenching nature of depression was beautifully captured in Christine. If you've ever been to that dark place of desparation, then you'll appreciate this film. I already knew how the story was going to end, which made it even harder to watch at times, especially since I knew it was based on the true story of Christine Chubbuck, the news anchor who shot herself in the head on live television. Watching Christine teeter back and forth between the hope of bettering her circumstances, and the painful descent back down brought me to tears at times. One scene that really caught me was at around three-quarters into the movie. In the middle of conducting an interview, she has a temporary mental breakdown. She calmly tells the interviewee that they will continue the interview at a later date, and leaves the room. She runs into the bathroom and cracks, bursting into a tormented sob session. The moment her friend runs in and asks if she's okay, Christine instantaneously straightens herself up and says she's fine. A moment like that is even more haunting knowing that eventually, Christine will later take her own life with the cameras rolling, and all aimed at her.

Christine's story is a depressing one, and 99% of the audience knows what's going to happen at the end. So the director has to be exceptional to hold our interest and keep the drama, but he fails at both. The character Christine is pretty depressed and a little weird/unstable from the very beginning. There's no watching her fall into depression; she's already there. That detracts A LOT from any character development we may want to see. Instead, we see someone depressed during the beginning, middle, and end. No changes. Boring. He director tells her to go cover a big dangerous fire, but she disobeys and instead chooses to cover a minor boundary dispute between two counties. She also talks to herself and pretends to interview people. Yes, she is THAT boring, and this movie follows suit.

Based on the true story of Chris Chubbuck, Christine hits almost every mark needed to portray a compelling film without being encumbered by the exploitative habits stories of this nature often lend themselves to. Nuance is the key to this film. It's brilliance lies squarely within its subtitles. The film maker charged his lead actress with an almost impossible task and, from all accounts, she nailed it. The real Christine is shrouded in mystery. Not much is known about her besides her very public departure. I believe there is approximately 20 minutes of video footage available of her work on Suncoast Digest and no other sources of information about anything happening before July 15, 1974. With such limited inspiration, Rebecca Hall delivers! People who knew the real woman say she has captured her charge perfectly. The entire cast was great but Hall outshines everyone with her awkward, honest, and desperate performance. Does the movie drag a bit? Yes. Are there scenes so awkward that the audience feels a bit uncomfortable? Absolutely. Do certain situations feel forced or over analyzed on the part of the protagonist? How can it be another way? These factors create the feel of the film. It helps the viewer feel what it is assumed that Chubbuck felt, her "different drumbeat" as her mother put it. The hardest scenes to watch were the puppet show scenes. No doubt all imagined by the writer, though we do know that the real Chris did perform for disabled children, the stories she created for them are her outlet for the trepidation she felt when dealing with the world. Be brave, be bold. Tell people who you are. Painful lessons to those who know what's coming. The low point of the film are with the fictionalized Daiss Auto/Gun Shop. Honestly, that whole storyline feel as contrived as it is fictionalized. Everyone assumed Chris bought her .38 SW revolver at the Bullet Hole, a gun ship in Sarasota. I'm not sure why the writers took this direction but it is distracting. Also, the choice to leave out the real life story of Chris doing an episode of Suncoast Digest about suicide, even interviewing a cop who she asked what is the most effective method to kill oneself (which, 3 weeks later she followed to a T) takes away from the "bio pic" feel, especially since most of the viewers know her story by heart. Even with the creative gun storyline, her pain and disillusionment is palpable. My main criticism,and reason for the 8/10 reason, is the minimal attention given to her mental health. There is brief mention of a previous breakdown, and that she had taken antidepressants, that's really it. From family accounts, Chris had struggled with mental health issues since high school. Overall, a great movie about a very difficult topic. I was skeptical going in but am glad I made the decision to watch it. Anachronisms: Peg's TV wasn't made in 1974, the doctor says that Chris' chart said that she had been taking Trazodone, I'm fairly certain that it wasn't approved by the FDA to treat depression in the US until 1981.rest in peace Chris Chubbuck