{"id":2009215,"date":"2025-09-09T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2009215"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:06:18","slug":"the-christophers-review-michaela-coels-steely-self-possession-and-ian-mckellens-scalding-wit-are-an-irresistible-match-in-steven-soderberghs-tart-art-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-christophers-review-michaela-coels-steely-self-possession-and-ian-mckellens-scalding-wit-are-an-irresistible-match-in-steven-soderberghs-tart-art-come\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Christophers\u2019 Review: Michaela Coel\u2019s Steely Self-Possession and Ian McKellen\u2019s Scalding Wit Are an Irresistible Match in Steven Soderbergh\u2019s Tart Art Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shake the family trees of many celebrated artists nearing the end of their lives and you\u2019re likely to find at least one heir plotting how to keep the cash cow going postmortem, in the meantime guiding arthritic hands to sign every last doodle that might be worth something. Not to mention wincing in pain any time another museum donation gets shipped off. In The Christophers<\/a>, Steven Soderbergh<\/a>\u2019s crafty comedy about legacy, forgery, unbridled greed and resentments, the grasping adult offspring of a once celebrated painter are the embodiment of avaricious scheming. They won\u2019t miss the old man, but they\u2019ll miss the sums his work can fetch.<\/p>\n

Written by Ed Solomon<\/a>, who collaborated with Soderbergh on the twisty neo-noir No Sudden Move<\/a> as well as the TV series Mosaic and Full Circle, the film is a talky chamber piece that\u2019s virtually a two-hander and could just…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shake the family trees of many celebrated artists nearing the end of their lives and you\u2019re likely to find at least one heir plotting how to keep the cash cow going postmortem, in the meantime guiding arthritic hands to sign every last doodle that might be worth something. Not to mention wincing in pain any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2009216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2009215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018The-Christophers-Review-Michaela-Coels-Steely-Self-Possession-and-Ian-McKellens.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}