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Christopher Stuckmann (born April 15, 1988) is an American filmmaker, YouTuber and film critic. He is known as one of the most popular figures of YouTube's film community, though he does have his fair share of other content related to topics including video games and anime. His YouTube channel reached one million subscribers on June 20, 2017, and two million on July 26, 2022.

Stuckmann first got into film criticism in his teenage years, but has been a lover of film his entire life. He has cited Roger Ebert as his chief influence for pursuing film criticism, and credits the experiences of watching Signs, Minority Report and Spider-Man 1 in theaters soon after each other as a teenager for igniting his passion for filmmaking. In his twenties, he unearthed the community of film critics on YouTube, and the rest is history.

While Stuckmann had been writing and directing shorts and features with friends and family as early as his adolescence — including a series of Indiana Jones fan films with none other than himself as Indy — he began a more public filmmaking career in the late 2010s (barring an unfinished short in 2013). As of now, he has released two short films: the horror-comedy Auditorium 6 (2017) and the comedy-drama Notes from Melanie (2019). While the former has only been shown at film festivals, the latter was released on his channel for free public viewing.

In July 2021, it was announced that Stuckmann had signed with production company Paper Street Pictures to write and direct his debut feature film, a horror film titled Shelby Oaks based on the Paranormal Paranoids, a fictional mid-2000s U.S. paranormal investigative team. Original plans for the film to enter production in 2021 were postponed due to insufficient funds and the since-averted IATSE strike. A Kickstarter campaign started in March 2022 to secure additional funding ultimately raised a historic $1,390,845 — over a million dollars more than its initial $250,000 goal. The film was shot in 28 days between May and June 2022, and premiered at the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival on July 20, 2024. That month, Neon acquired the film's worldwide distribution rights, with a North American release currently planned for late 2025.

Stuckmann also announced in July 2021 that he would be retiring regular movie reviews with graded scores, instead shifting towards giving unscored reviews for movies he wants to draw attention and support to, as well as videos tailored toward people seeking information on making films. However, he eventually began giving unscored reviews of new releases as well.

In November 2021, Stuckmann announced that his wife Sam had given birth to twin boys. They were born the day after Chris made his announcement video about directing Shelby Oaks.

Stuckmann has also published two books: The Film Buff's Bucket List (2016), containing 50 movies from the 2000s "to see before you die", and Anime Impact (2018), a history of the most influential films and shows in anime.

He has an account on Instagram.

Stuckmann is also both an approved Rotten Tomatoes critic and member of the Critics Choice Association. In 2014, he was added to Channel Awesome, but parted ways with them in April 2018.


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    Movies That Have Received "F" Ratings 

    Movies That Have Received "A+" Ratings 
Do note that some of the films listed are on Chris' "A+ Movies" playlist because he featured them in other segments.

    Movies That Have Been Analyzed 

    Movies That Have Received Hilariocity Reviews 

     Video Games That Have Received 10/ 10 Ratings 


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