Christine (1983 film) premise [from the novel by Stephen King] combined with the crazed-vehicle format, makes Christine appear pretty shop worn." Roger Ebert gave the movie three out of four stars, saying: "by the end of the movie, Christine has developed such a formidable personality that we are actually taking sides during its duel with a bulldozer. This is the kind of movie where you walk out with a silly grin, get in your car, and lay rubber halfway down the Eisenhower." Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" gave the film a middling review, saying: "The early parts of the film are
Christine Leunens Christine Leunens Christine Leunens is a New Zealand-Belgian novelist. She is the author of "Primordial Soup", "Caging Skies" and "A Can of Sunshine", which have been translated in over fifteen languages. "Caging Skies" has been adapted for film by director Taika Waititi, under the name "Jojo Rabbit". Christine Leunens was born in Hartford, Connecticut on 29 December 1964, the daughter of an Italian mother and a Belgian father, and the grand-daughter of Flemish artist Guillaume Leunens, whose years in a German labour camp in WWII would afterwards influence his abstract metal works. As a young child she travelled between Belgium