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Chase Hutchinson

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Biography:

Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson is a Seattle-based journalist and critic. He has written for a variety of publications such as Bright Wall/Dark Room, IGN, IndieWire, The Seattle Times, TheWrap, Seattle Met, The Inlander, The Playlist, The Portland Mercury, The Stranger, The Boston Globe, The News Tribune, and Willamette Week. He is also a member of and serves as Vice President of the Seattle Film Critics Society.

Reviews

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Ghost in the Machine (2026) EDIT “Valerie Veatch’s blistering "Ghost in the Machine" is a radical, necessary Molotov cocktail of a documentary that’s being thrown right into the heart of our nonsense, nightmarish world of overinflated AI hype. ” – TheWrap Jan 28, 2026 Full Review Chasing Summer (2026) EDIT “Though there are flashes of more chaotic comedy that get the pulse racing here and there, for the most part "Chasing Summer" is a surprisingly safe genre riff.” – TheWrap Jan 27, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 88% EDIT “Most podcasts remain disposable, yet this film about a truly cursed one captures not just the evil that may lurk within them, but wields a sonic power that, for the brave, is one you’ll want to listen back to.” – TheWrap Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Union County (2026) 100% EDIT “At every turn, the film earns every emotional, lived-in development, instilling this slice-of-life portrait with such a quiet humanity that it can feel like you’re sitting at the tables and in the meeting rooms along with all the characters.” – TheWrap Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Musical (2026) EDIT “That this is Bonilla’s feature directorial debut makes one only hope she keeps making comedies like this, as every escalation, cutaway, and lighting cue is perfectly executed. Doug may be a terrible director, but she proves to be a great one. ” – TheWrap Jan 26, 2026 Full Review zi (2026) EDIT “As shot by his frequent collaborator, the cinematographer Benjamin Loeb, and cut together by Kogonada himself, "Zi" blurs the lines between tone poem and hangout movie, letting both merge together to become something unexpectedly moving.” – TheWrap Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Buddy (2026) 80% EDIT “Each time you think you’re seeing the daylight of something potentially better to explore on the horizon, "Buddy" keeps dragging you back into the banal darkness. Like the kids, you deserve far better than whatever this lackluster production amounts to.” – TheWrap Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Leviticus (2026) 100% EDIT “Chiarella’s film is small in scope but shattering in emotional range, slowly burrowing under your skin. Once it makes its home there, there is no shaking free of its haunting, heartbreaking and surprisingly harmonious vision. ” – TheWrap Jan 24, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 57% EDIT “It’s honest about the deception that is inherent to celebrity, confronting us with one compromise after another, building to a pitch-perfect finale needle-drop over a captivating monologue that elevates the comedy into a work of grand, messy ambition.” – TheWrap Jan 24, 2026 Full Review I Want Your Sex (2026) 88% EDIT “Even as the structure of the story creates a sense of inevitability to everything that can undercut the fun of seeing it fall apart, the often campy and heightened way each scene plays out means you’re always drawn in by something. ” – TheWrap Jan 24, 2026 Full Review Saccharine (2026) 92% EDIT “"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. ” – TheWrap Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The History of Concrete (2026) 100% EDIT “Though an extension of the same tone that was experienced in his HBO series, this feature is more than just one very long episode of his show. Instead, it’s like Wilson has fully become a funnier, more frenetic version of Frederick Wiseman.” – TheWrap Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Carousel (2026) 87% EDIT “With "Carousel," Lambert’s new romantic drama starring the excellent duo of Chris Pine and Jenny Slate, she strikes gold yet again. ” – TheWrap Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% 3.5/4 EDIT “It’s arresting cinema and a truly one-of-a-kind look at history that, sadly, despite all the film has going for it, feels like it hasn’t gotten its proper moment in the sun in the way it should have. ” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Jan 22, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 93% 3/4 EDIT “When [Fiennes] gets a showstopper of a final number, it very nearly blows the roof off the entire film. ” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Jan 16, 2026 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% EDIT “What do you get if you take The Wizard of Oz, strip it of all its vibrant color, and then pretend this is something that actually makes it feel "grounded" in reality? Well, you’ve got the woefully wearisome Wicked: For Good. ” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review War of the Worlds (2025) 4% EDIT “Where other films built around screens like Searching and Missing were able to make what could be a bit of gimmick work, War of the Worlds is just a dull disaster from start to finish. ” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 14% EDIT “A lifeless and empty husk of "content" in the worst sense of the word, it’s as if the Russos took Stålenhag’s striking illustrations, put them into a shredder and half-heartedly assembled what it spat out. ” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review No Other Choice (2025) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “It’s a macabre, mirthful fable that, while not Park’s best (that’s still "The Handmaiden"), is delicately attuned to how people who otherwise believe themselves to be good can become forces of cruelty.” – Seattle Times Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Dust Bunny (2025) 85% 3/4 EDIT “Though built around the potential of a monster under the bed, which brings gruesome death to all who underestimate it, it’s a film that’s bursting with life in every cleverly executed sequence or gleefully macabre joke.” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Dec 26, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% 1.5/4 EDIT “Much like its central character, The Housemaid only gets interesting when it finally makes itself at home in the genre’s pleasures. Everything else? Best pack it up and move.” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Dec 26, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% 3.5/4 EDIT “Watching an exhilarating, exhausting Chalamet careen his way through "Marty Supreme" is not unlike watching another wannabe American icon, Wile E. Coyote, when he runs off the cliff in pursuit of the Road Runner he’ll never catch.” – Seattle Times Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% 2/4 EDIT “There’s still nobody making movies like Cameron. It’s just unfortunate that, at this point in his career, he proved it by making a bigger version of the same movie all over again. ” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Dec 18, 2025 Full Review Zootopia 2 (2025) 91% 1/4 EDIT “Like the saintly new snake character that it introduces, it’s wearing the skin of what you think a movie like this should be, but soon sheds it all off to reveal itself as one of the most desperately sweaty sequels of recent memory. ” – The Inlander (Spokane, WA) Nov 27, 2025 Full Review The Family Plan 2 (2025) 31% EDIT “Even as all the comedy to be found within this setup had already run dry a full movie ago, "The Family Plan 2" keeps going back to the well in the desperate hope that there are still a few drops left. ” – TheWrap Nov 20, 2025 Full Review
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