The Life of Chuck
The Life of Chuck
A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
Alex | Pop Culture Brain reviewedJune 13, 2025
Do not let anyone spoil this movie for you
Because if you can go in cold, you’re in for an amazing experience
I saw The Life of Chuck
So here's the good and the bad without spoilers
This is a huge cliche, but this movie is literally why we go to the movies
To see humanity and the human condition reflected back at us
Mike Flanagan, using Stephen King’s source material has delivered
The profound, expansive, and magical type of film I am always looking for
Simply put, The Life of Chuck Deeply is moving perhaps soul rattling filmmaking
When the credits stopped rolling, I could feel my heart pounding
Just from the sheer magnitude of it
King and Flanagan pull off this magic trick
Where the writing affects you in one way in the first half of the movie
But then it all grows and deepens after you've taken everything in
The meaning and themes unfold and reveal themselves in these resonant circular ripples
That just really got me —
But that was also because I knew absolutely nothing going in
I hadn’t seen a single trailer or even read a logline
And that is the best way to see this movie, because the surprises are wonderful
The whole cast is really instrumental in pulling this off
Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillen, Mia Sara, Mark Hamill, Carl Lumbly
But shout ot to Matthew Lillard who really shocked me with his one scene
If I had to find flaws, the movie relies a bit heavily on narration
Though they've got Nick Offerman doing it, so that's a plus
And the pacing felt a tad sluggish in the third act
But those are such minor nitpicks
For what is easily one of my favorite movies of the year so far