Christian Gallichio, Author at The Playlist

‘We’re All Going To The World’s Fair’ Review: An Impressive Debut About the Horrors of Internet Anonymity

April 13, 2022 3:10 pm

The first film to mine the feeling of reading a creepypasta, instead of just using the texts for I.P., Jane Schoenbrun’s narrative debut “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” is a lo-fi horror show more intere...

‘Meat The Future’ Review: More Glorified Advertisement Than Deep Dive Into The Clean-Meat Movement

Christian Gallichio

April 7, 2022 4:05 pm

News, Reviews

Featuring one of the more eye-rolling puns in recent memory, Liz Marshall’s clean-meat documentary “Meat the Future'' plays out both as a swift introduction to the growing industry of cultivated meat and a fea...

‘Return To Space’ Review: An Uncritical Look At SpaceX And Elon Musk

Christian Gallichio

April 7, 2022 3:45 pm

News, Reviews

After the back-to-back knockouts of “Free Solo” and “The Rescue” — the former earning them an Oscar, the latter unceremoniously snubbed last year — Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi turn to the sky in t...

‘Gabby Giffords: Won’t Back Down’ Review: A Personal, Scattered Tribute to the Titular Congresswoman [SXSW]

Christian Gallichio

March 12, 2022 6:46 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

In 2011, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords survived an assassination attempt that left her partially paralyzed and unable to walk. Tracing her recovery and activism, the title of Julie...

‘Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off’ Review: A Routine But Engaging Introduction to Hawk’s Career [SXSW]

Christian Gallichio

March 12, 2022 4:03 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

For the skateboarding illiterate, there is perhaps no more famous name than Tony Hawk. Even those who cannot differentiate a kickflip from a heelflip can probably tell you something about the most popular...

‘Crows are White’ Review: A Personal Reflection on the Limitations of Faith [SXSW]

Christian Gallichio

March 12, 2022 1:57 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Beginning as a cultural and religious exploration of the Japanese Monks that reside on the top of Mount Hiei near Kyoto, then transforming into a profoundly personal reflection on director Ahsen Nadeem’s own l...

‘For Lucio’ Review: A Rambling Eulogy To The Italian Singer-Songwriter Lucio Dalla [Berlin]

Christian Gallichio

February 21, 2022 1:14 pm

Festivals, Reviews

Resembling more of a personal tribute than exhaustive biography, Pietro Marcello's Lucio Dalla documentary, "For Lucio," takes its title as an invitation. A rambling eulogy that is just as often confusing as i...

‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ Review: Brisk Introduction To Synthetic Diamonds Questions The Nature of Authenticity [Berlin]

Christian Gallichio

February 12, 2022 5:33 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Demystifying and questioning the very notion of authenticity, Jason Kohn’s informative and oddly riveting, diamond-documentary “Nothing Lasts Forever” is ostensibly about the oft-antagonistic relationship betw...

‘The Slow Hustle’ Is A Complex, Journalistic Dive Into Policing In Baltimore [Review]

Christian Gallichio

January 24, 2022 1:26 pm

News, Reviews

Long after her breakout role as Kima Greggs in HBO’s groundbreaking “The Wire,” Sonja Sohn has often returned to Baltimore as both a site of political activism and narrative storytelling. Her second documentar...

‘To The End’ Review: A Scattered, Occasionally Brilliant, Rallying Cry about the Climate Crisis [Sundance]

Christian Gallichio

January 23, 2022 3:50 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Returning to similar thematic territory as her previous 2019 documentary feature, “Knock Down the House,” director Rachel Lears turns to the climate crises in her follow-up, “To the End.” Much like that previo...

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