Chase Hutchinson is a film and TV critic for TheWrap and has written for the publication since 2024. He is a member of the Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS).

Chase Hutchinson
Experience:
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‘The Joyless Economy’ Review: A Revelatory Reflection on Horror, Sex and Cinema Itself
Cannes 2026: You’re unlikely to see an independent film as thoughtfully crafted and revealing as Marjorie Conrad’s latest
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‘Everytime’ Review: Sandra Wollner’s Delicate, Devastating Portrait of Grief Is One You Won’t Forget
Cannes 2026: Birgit Minichmayr gives a magnificent performance as a mother grappling with an immense loss
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‘La Gradiva’ Review: Astounding Cannes Award-Winning Debut Is One for the Ages
Cannes 2026: Marine Atlan’s film already feels like a new coming-of-age classic
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‘Victorian Psycho’ Review: Maika Monroe Is Maddeningly Good
Cannes 2026: Filmmaker Zachary Wigon conjures a darkly fun yet fleeting period horror starring today’s premier scream queen
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‘The Man I Love’ Review: Rami Malek Shows ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Was Just His Opening Act
Cannes 2026: Ira Sachs’ latest drama is a monumental portrait of a queer New York artist facing the end during the AIDS crisis
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‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Adaptation Is Both a Murder Mystery and Mesmerizing Epic
Cannes 2026: The prolific director continues to show there’s no one out there making movies like he is
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‘Iron Boy’ Review: This Former Pixar Animator Has Made His Own Magical Hand-Drawn Movie
Cannes 2026: Heads up animation lovers, you’re going to want to get to know the name Louis Clichy
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‘Her Private Hell’ Review: Sophie Thatcher Is Transcendent in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Slippery Sci-Fi Horror
Cannes 2026: It’s no “Citizen Kane,” but Refn’s long-awaited return to feature filmmaking is still worth taking a trip with
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‘Hope’ Review: Na Hong-jin’s Masterful Monster Movie Leaps Between Action, Horror and Sci-Fi
Cannes 2026: Outside of Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, this film cements “Squid Game” actress Hoyeon as an action star
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‘Full Phil’ Review: Kristen Stewart Eats Woody Harrelson Up in Quentin Dupieux’s Slight, Silly Farce
Cannes 2026: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim also star as a duo investigating a monster in a movie within the movie
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‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Gets His Own Chaotic Evil Version of ‘Sentimental Value’
Cannes 2026: A father and daughter with a strained relationship making a movie together — what could possibly go wrong?
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‘Clarissa’ Review: Sophie Okonedo Is Outstanding In Riveting Reimagining of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’
Cannes 2026: The film, which also stars Ayo Edebiri, David Oyelowo, and many more, breathes new life into an old story
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‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’ Review: John Travolta’s Directorial Debut Is a Disaster
Cannes 2026: The actor has been a part of many classic movies, but his latest film is memorable only for its misfires
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‘We Are Aliens’ Review: Agonizing, Astounding Animated Gem Heralds Kohei Kadowaki as an Exciting New Voice
Cannes 2026: This remarkably crafted, deeply painful, coming-of-age portrait is the animation discovery of the festival thus far
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‘Nagi Notes’ Review: Kôji Fukada Sculpts a Fragmented, Fascinating Portrait
Cannes 2026: The director of “Love Life” returns with a drama that mirrors the meticulously-crafted sculptures at its center














