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Love me, love my bruised ego: what the narcissist-artist film tells us about the fear of ageing

Bitter Christmas, Late Fame and The Christophers all depict geniuses aware of their waning acclaim and terrified it will end

The Guardian - UK

5 movies you (probably) skipped in theaters but need to stream in May 2026

These movies might not have been blockbusters on the big screen, but you should give them a second chance now they're streaming.

Tom’s Guide

The Christophers review – Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are the double act of the year

Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon provide a vision of haughty Englishness up there with Gosford Park and Phantom Thread

The Guardian - UK

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The Christophers review – Ian McKellen’s best performance since Gandalf

4/5 The veteran actor plays a cruel, bitter painter who torments his children (played by James Corden and Jessica Gunning) and tangles with a young art restorer (Michaela Coel)

The Independent UK

The Christophers explores the world of art fakes, but leaves its hardest questions unresolved

A former artist turned art forger, Lori Butler (Michaela Coel) poses a deceptively simple question at the heart of Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Christophers: does it really matter who paints an artwork?

The Conversation

Sir Ian McKellen: ‘We’ve forgotten how to subsidise the arts’

Sir Ian stars in The Christophers, a film about two siblings as they hire a forger to complete their father’s unfinished work.

Evening Standard

Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel on art, their friendship and 'The Christophers'

As screen presences and cultural figures, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel could hardly be more different

The Independent UK

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How Ian McKellen Became The Secret Weapon To Steven Soderbergh's Surprising New Heist Movie

Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel talk art, fame, and working with Steven Soderbergh on 'The Christophers.'

Inverse

The Christophers review – Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel spar in smart Soderbergh original

The actors play off each other beautifully in an intimate London-set comedy drama about art, commerce and the mess in-between

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