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- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: I do not take away from anyone finding meaning, maybe even comfort, in The Life of Chuck. I wish though that those 39 years did not have so much narration.
- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: The Life of Chuck is a film that’s filled with emotion, but the full impact of the story is not felt until the final moments. It has a mysterious journey that is initially frustrating, but the performances keep the film going until it gets to its satisfying payoff.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A genre-bending story of an ordinary man and how he discovers he is connected to everything and contains multitudes.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: adapting the Stephen King story, [Flanagan] hasn’t ironed out all the wrinkles, but he has made a moving contemplation on the meaning of life, one which owes a lot to a line in a Whitman poem and the idea that you live as long as you are remembered.
- David Gonzalez @ The Cinematic Reel
- Excerpt: The Life of Chuck is euphoric. Flanagan fuses Stephen King’s nostalgic tenderness with a Frank Capra-esque celebration of human connection, creating a heartfelt embrace of life’s most precious moments.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: A dreamy scrapbook of fortune-cookie morals—with one unforgettable moment that truly soars.
- Nell Minow @ moviemom.com
- Excerpt: While it includes dark and tragic themes, it is a story of profound humanity, ultimately spirit-expanding.
- [new] | Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: The Life of Chuck truly is a balm for the soul [that] becomes a little game to catch the references amidst Nick Offerman’s fun narration and Flanagan’s brightly surreal imagery of nightmare, dream, and reality.
- Derrick Murray @ Nerdbot.com
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: For a feature I’ve had a difficult time providing a plain and simple description of, The Life of Chuck has a way of grasping onto the viewer and showing them something profound.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Mike Flanagan adapts a not-so-scary Stephen King story to tremendous effect with ‘The Life of Chuck’, crafting an ethereal, poetic drama that juxtaposes the vastness of time and the universe against the quiet importance of a single human life. The cast is outstanding, the story is profound, the direction is assured, and the result pulses with the beauty, messiness, and meaning of being alive.
- Eddie Pasa @ DC Filmdom
- Excerpt: What Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck has given to me is indescribable; all I feel is thankful for having experienced it.
- Shelagh Rowan-Legg @ ScreenAnarchy
- Jeff Schaefer @ The Marquee Topic
- Excerpt: Thanks, Chuck, for 39 great years! The signs are all up around town, but no one knows who Chuck is in Mike Flanagan’s latest Stephen King adaptation The Life of Chuck.
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