Christina Newland

Christina Newland is a journalist on film, pop culture and boxing at VICE, Sight & Sound, BBC, MUBI, Empire, and others. Her first book, an edited anthology called She Found It at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema, was published in March 2020. She tweets @christinalefou and you can find her work at www.thebetamaxrevolt.com.

Articles by Christina Newland

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Join Christina Newland for a watch-along viewing of The Diary of a Teenage Girl

In celebration of the launch of Female Desire on Screen on BFI Player, Christina Newland – season curator and editor of anthology She Found It at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema – will be live-blogging Marielle Heller’s sexy coming-of-age story The Diary of a Teenage Girl from 7pm.

Friday, April 24, 2020
All I desire: women watching men at the movies

To mark the publication of Christina Newland’s new collection of women’s film writing She Found It at the Movies, here’s her manifesto for a proudly subjective, impressionistic and lusty female film criticism, from our October 2017 issue.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Features
Birds of Prey review: Harley Quinn lets her hair down

Girls just wanna have fun, writes Christina Newland, in the giddily hyper-violent extravaganza from the DC Extended Universe, with Margot Robbie’s comic villain leading the blood-soaked jamboree.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Reviews and recommendations
Where to begin with Elia Kazan

Your next obsession: Elia Kazan’s masterpieces of Method and melodrama

Monday, January 27, 2020

Features
The best TV series of 2019

Our inaugural critics’ poll of the top ten television series of 2019 offers a tantalising mix of comedy, horror and drama – and holds up a mirror to our age. See how 37 television critics judged the year, including Molly Haskell’s extended take on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag.

Monday, January 6, 2020

Annual round-ups
Where to begin with Vincente Minnelli

Your next obsession: the musicals and melodramas of Vincente Minnelli

Monday, December 9, 2019

Features
Why bad taste is over – An interview with John Waters

‘The Pope of Trash’ is on Criterion, Donald Trump is in the White House, and Scorsese is going after Marvel. As John Waters tells us, these are strange times for negotiating high and low culture.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Interviews
Death and the musical

Behind the smiles and fluff, a sense of mortality hovers over the great Hollywood musicals, says Christina Newland.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Features
Joker review: Joaquin Phoenix’s alienated antihero is no laughing matter

Todd Phillips’s dark origin story for Batman’s nemesis soars past its troubling ideological confusion on a cascade of Scorsese references and a killer performance from Joaquin Phoenix, writes Christina Newland.

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Reviews and recommendations
Marriage Story review: Noah Baumbach’s divorce tale has the rueful ring of truth

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver play divorcing spouses struggling to take care of their son in Noah Baumbach’s reflective and occasionally devastating drama, writes Christina Newland.

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Reviews and recommendations