Chris Stuckmann


Christopher Stuckmann is an American film critic, filmmaker, and YouTuber., Stuckmann has over 1.8 million subscribers and over 562 million views on YouTube. He is currently a Tomatometer-approved critic on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes and a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

Early life

Stuckmann took an interest in film criticism from a young age, writing brief reviews of films as early as age fourteen. His primary inspiration among professional film critics was Roger Ebert, particularly the television program Siskel & Ebert & the Movies which Ebert co-hosted with Gene Siskel. He writes that by watching these reviews, he "discovered the idea of a debate on a film, but a respectful one."
Stuckmann cites his experience watching Signs in theaters as a child as his primary inspiration for becoming a filmmaker. Filmmakers Stuckmann has cited as having heavily influenced him include George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, M. Night Shyamalan, and Christopher Nolan. Throughout high school, Stuckmann wrote and directed numerous homemade movies and short films with friends and family.

Career

YouTube

He began publishing YouTube reviews of current films in his twenties and published his first film review in 2009. When he began publishing video reviews, there was only a small group of other video bloggers reviewing films on YouTube. He has also expanded into reviewing television shows, anime, and video games. His reviews are generally spoiler-free; however, he will occasionally release additional spoiler reviews for movies he feels would benefit from further, in-depth explanation.
Stuckmann has become among the most popular film critics on the website, having a following of over 1.78 million subscribers as of June 2020. Stewart Fletcher of Moviepilot ranked Stuckmann's YouTube channel as the number one channel that movie fans should subscribe to, writing that it's Stuckmann's "passion and his deep examination of every film that keeps me coming back" and that he "gives coherent, well-written reviews with passionate standpoints".

Other projects

He published his first book, The Film Buff’s Bucket List: The 50 Movies of the 2000s to See Before You Die, in 2016. A year later, he directed and wrote the short film Auditorium 6. In April 2018, Stuckmann published his second book titled Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows that Changed the World of Japanese Animation.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Web