Warning: SPOILERS are ahead for The Life of Chuck.

For a movie as unabashedly sappy as 'The Life of Chuck' to actually break through and move me to tears a few times is a ...

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The Life of Chuck is requisitely affirming and heartwarming. But what makes it so infuriatingly, outrageously, quintessentially Stephen King is how this so closely follows the paint-by-numbers framing ...

Mike Flanagan's newest film, 'The Life of Chuck', may be a life-affirming hit, but this Netflix series is still his best work ...

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An undertaker (Carl Lumbly) whom Marty meets refers to Chuck as “the Oz of the Apocalypse.” Marty reconnects with his ex-wife ...

In the first act of Flanagan’s movie — that’s Act 3 for those who need to be reminded that “Life of Chuck” is not your average narrative feature, OK! — the world is ending.

Mike Flanagan's new film The Life of Chuck is a metaphor. It's a fairy tale, adapted from a short story by Stephen King, told backwards. Explaining the ending means explaining the beginning.

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Karen Gillan, who stars in "The Life of Chuck." The genre-bending is based on a novella of the same title by Stephen King.

"The Life of Chuck" is a three-act story, told in reverse, beginning with Act 3. In it, Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Marty Anderson, a high school teacher who is in the middle of class — his lesson is ...

"The Life Of Chuck" is directed by Mike Flanagan, and stars Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Matthew Lillard, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Karen Gillan, who joins us now from New York. Welcome to WEEKEND EDITION.