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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Her Smell first look: Elisabeth Moss plays a free falling rock star
Alex Ross Perry’s fictional punk biopic begins as a riot of viciousness, but as his heroine gets clean the film finds a stillness and purity that redeems it, writes Christina Newland.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
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Girls of the Sun first look: Eva Husson's Kurdish war drama drills home female victimhood
Eva Husson’s crudely didactic drama about Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State emphasises misogynist pain and degradation at every chance, says Christina Newland.
Friday, May 18, 2018
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El Angel first look: hitching a ride on a teenage killing spree
Luis Ortega’s film doesn’t judge the horrible crimes of its baby-faced serial killer anithero, played by Lorenzo Ferro. Instead it’s a subversively funny and cool take on the crime movie, writes Christina Newland.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
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Birds of Passage first look: gang warfare in the desert
The crime saga is reimagined in the tribal lands of north Colombia in this vivid, distinctive film from the makers of Embrace of the Serpent, writes Christina Newland.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
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Reagan’s bastard children: the lost teens of 1980s American indie films
Away from the ersatz, self-satisfied rebelliousness of Reaganite pop teen movies, a more independent strain of US cinema scratched at the darkness on the edge of mainstream adult society. Christina Newland revisits the orphans of the American Dream.
Monday, April 30, 2018
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