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The Life of Chuck

Directed by Mike Flanagan (R)

★★★

The latest Stephen King adaptation is "one of the year's best movies," said Odie Henderson in The Boston Globe. "I don't know how it will fare at the box office, but I can see it becoming a beloved favorite in the same way The Shawshank Redemption ultimately did." It recounts the life story of one ordinary man, opening with him lying on his deathbed amid the world's end-times before twice turning back the clock—once to catch...