Chase Hutchinson

1 week ago | ign.com | Chase Hutchinson

The Mastermind will premiere in theaters and stream on Mubi at a date TBD. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Kelly Reichardt’s heist movie The Mastermind is crackingly, urgently alive, an assured and magnificent addition to an already storied body of work. Set amid the malaise and unrest of 1970s Massachusetts, it’s political and personal, exploring the life of an unemployed carpenter who tries his hand at art theft only for his life to entirely fall apart.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Chase Hutchinson

If you’ve been watching “The Last of Us” Season 2, the HBO adaptation of the video game of the same name about a pandemic that destroys humanity as we know it and turns people into “infected” that will tear you apart, you’ll have seen that a postapocalyptic Seattle is as much of a character as the humans struggling to survive in its ruins.

1 week ago | thewrap.com | Chase Hutchinson

In the first half of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the films were often, understandably, downright apocalyptic. After all, the world is in dire straits and cinema, as well as any art we make, has always reflected this. But unlike many festivals, Cannes does not frontload its schedule with most of the high-profile titles in the first few days.

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Chase Hutchinson

A film that’s moderately amusing in fits and starts before its modest pleasures wear painfully thin, “Honey Don’t!” is among the most disappointing films to show at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The disappointment stems from the fact that writer/director Ethan Coen and writer Tricia Cooke had previously made the flawed yet still far more engaging “Drive-Away Dolls” just recently.

2 weeks ago | thewrap.com | Chase Hutchinson

Raising a child is one of the hardest things you can do, even under the best of circumstances. You have to operate on next to no sleep, navigate an already-challenging reality and find a way to support yourself financially, as well as emotionally. And you must do this day after day. In “Young Mothers,” the latest from social-realist filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, we see this through the lens of five young single mothers who are navigating the perils of growing up in a tough world.