The Life of Chuck

critic Reviews

, 87% Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • Showing a sweeter side of director Mike Flanagan's deeply-felt emotional register, The Life of Chuck is a buoyant and often wonderful adaptation of one of Stephen King's more cosmically optimistic tales.
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    Matt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.com
    A lot of movies barely have a point of view at all. This one is a prism in comparison. It gives viewers what David Lynch called “room to dream.”
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    Richard LawsonVanity Fair
    It’s a lumpy, eclectic film, one grasping for deep meaning but never quite reaching it. Flanagan’s ambition fails him here, as it sometimes does in his ornately crafted Netflix shows.
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    Marshall ShafferSlant Magazine
    Mike Flanagan’s film doesn’t escape the mires of unpersuasive pop psychology.
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    Kristen LopezThe Film Maven (Substack)
    The Life of Chuck isn’t a movie with answers, but it’s a movie with compassion and understanding, which we can definitely use.
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    Siddhant AdlakhaVariety
    “Would answers make a good thing better?” [The film] ends up proving its point in all the wrong ways, swerving in and out of a boorish literalism that robs the film of its most euphoric power.
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    Kristy PuchkoMashable
    The Life of Chuck is a perfect marriage of Mike Flanagan and Stephen King's talents, but not in the way you might expect.
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    Bill BriaSlashfilm
    When it comes to "The Life of Chuck" being the most thoughtful, empathetic, and tender film of the year, it just is.

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    Danielle SolzmanSolzy at the Movies
    The Life of Chuck brings the Stephen King short story to the screen but the film continues a long-running practice of non-Jewish actors in Jewish roles.
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    Mark DujsikMark Reviews Movies
    This is a boldly beautiful and haunting film in which every answer about its narrative only raises more questions about the beginning and end of life, as well as everything in between.
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    Peter SobczynskiAuteurist Class (Substack)
    The film takes a hard-sell approach to its banal greeting-card-level observations that is so overbearing that it practically leaps off the screen, grabs you by the lapels and screams “Laugh! Cry! Contemplate the joys and mysteries of human existence!”
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