the movie itself is both painfully intimate and strangely opaque on the subject of mental illness, taking us deep inside Christine's disintegration even as it never quite figures out what it wants to say about it
Hall buries her posh Brit accent within Chubbuck's flat American one. But her character's nail-biting anxieties, maddening perfectionism and chronic pain remain near the surface, conveyed with empathy behind a forced smile