Chase Hutchinson

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For 391 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 50% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Chase Hutchinson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 X
Lowest review score: 0 Amsterdam
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 250 out of 391
  2. Mixed: 101 out of 391
  3. Negative: 40 out of 391
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Chase Hutchinson
    Grand Tour
    It is a wholly uncompromising experience that dances with mirth and melancholy. Proving to be evocative in one moment and unrelentingly exhausting in the next, it’s as gorgeous to behold visually as it is hard to completely embrace thematically. And yet, if you abandon yourself to it by the end as one character says, you can catch glimpses of something spectacularly sublime in the vast journey that it takes on.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Chase Hutchinson
    The Damned
    What makes The Damned so effective is how grounded it all is in the characters and their perception of the world.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Chase Hutchinson
    Lousy Carter
    Carter may remain quite lousy, but with Krumholtz at the helm, this film is anything but.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Chase Hutchinson
    The Beloved
    It writes what can feel like the equivalent of a hate letter to the movies (or at least the potential for abuse that can come from how they’re made) before eventually coming to his own halting emotional upswing about the enduring power they still hold.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Chase Hutchinson
    Saccharine
    Saccharine is not a film that goes down easy, but you may just find yourself hungering to return for a second course to get a better sense of what James is serving up.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Chase Hutchinson
    A Desert
    Along with his co-writer Bossi Baker, Erkman has made a distinctly eerie and sinister debut that succeeds at sneaking into the depths of your subconscious.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 70 Chase Hutchinson
    Robot Dreams
    Robot Dreams is a beautifully animated look at life, friendship, and what it means to grow apart.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Boogeyman
    The Boogeyman is at its best when it strips away all the excess to draw us deeper into darkness.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Bad Things
    Playing out almost like a spoof of various genres with both macabre horror and mumblecore misdirects, it's an odd film that's often as lost as the charming characters themselves before settling into a strange groove that starts to cast a spell of its own.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
    When all the dust settles, The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die is a flawed yet fitting finale that serves as a send-off to Uhtred of Bebbanburg and the bloody life he did everything to find a way clear of.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Passenger
    For all the ways the film holds us at a bit at a distance, the performances do wonders in closing this gap.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Saw X
    Is it a bit baggy and less amusingly chaotic than past entries? Absolutely. However, Bell's return as this character is still grimly fun when he's given room to let loose. Even as time isn't always on his side, he makes the most of nearly every moment.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Fuze
    Even as Fuze is not a great film, let alone one that will be remembered as a classic new take on the genre, it’s an endlessly watchable one.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Significant Other
    When it embraces an eerie and enigmatic tone that subsequently gets turned on its head, Significant Other still boldly proves to be a film worth getting lost in.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Both Sides of the Blade
    While it is important for the film to immerse itself in the emotional struggles of the scenes, it also is hindered by some occasionally abrupt edits and anarchic writing that dulls the sharpness of its story.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Wonder
    It is by no means a perfectly constructed work, but there is something more immense in its thematic aspiration that provides plenty for Pugh to play around with. All that makes it unwieldy also makes The Wonder mesmerizing so that, even when the spell is broken, you can’t shake it from your mind.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Hunt
    For all its many structural flaws that could doom a lesser work, it manages to break free when it counts. Though Hunt won’t become a paragon of action cinema, the moments where it lets loose still pack plenty of potent hits.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Surrounded
    There are layers of complexity in both Wright’s performance and that of the late Williams which elevate the experience, making for a sturdy enough riff on the Western that still could have been so much more.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Paddington In Peru
    It won’t be remembered as the best Paddington film by any stretch of the imagination, but that’s okay, as that’s a high bar to clear. It still proves to be a trip worth writing home about, and when the traveling companions are as charming as these, it is one you’d happily take again.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Magellan
    While Magellan is still a haunting vision, the ghosts of a more impactful film you remember most are also the ones that can feel pushed to the margins of the frame.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Lesson
    That it holds together is a testament to the cast who it feels like are battling against clumsy escalations that go bigger and louder when the quieter moments carry with them a far more tactful deployment of emotion.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Blackening
    Even as not all the jokes land, the rare experience of getting to take in a spoof comedy like this makes it worthwhile all the same.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Run Sweetheart Run
    While it takes a while to get there after dancing around its premise, when Run Sweetheart Run hits its stride it is more than worth running along with it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Thank You for Coming
    It has a lot on its mind that it wants to tackle, but that leaves much of the explorations it is undertaking feeling half-baked. This doesn’t drag things down too much, as it is mostly able to keep light on its feet, but it does make things a bit wobbly.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Dead Don't Hurt
    Though the ending is somewhat disappointing and less dynamic than everything that preceded it, this can’t take away all that the film still has going for it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Deep Sea
    While it is not going to be among the very best of 2023 when it comes to its story, the craft that went into its presentation is unlike anything you’ll see this year or any other. It manages to burst through the surface of its frequently stormy narrative waters and grab hold of your heart just as it does your eyes.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    The characters are consistently charming, the humor sufficiently silly, and the animation often beautiful, though the standard path it takes holds it back from fully exploring the potential lurking just beneath the surface. When it all bursts free towards the end is when the film is at its best.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Silent Twins
    Even with its many narrative flaws, The Silent Twins gives us an insight into not just the lives of the two sisters but the way they made sense of it through stories of their own.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    The Estate
    Though it doesn’t have the audacity to close when it should with its characters at their very lowest, The Estate is still proper fun in seeing a deeply improper family tear each other apart.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 67 Chase Hutchinson
    Barbarian
    It is an experience built around surprise revelations and plunging into the unknown. What is found there is not nearly as impactful as the actual journey itself, making for a mixed bag of horror and humor that rises above its lesser parts enough to hold together.
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