A movie based on a Stephen King novella and directed by Mike Flanagan – whose resume includes “Occulus,” “The Haunting of Hill House” and adaptations of King’s “Gerald’s Game” and “Dr. Sleep,” comes with certain expectations – especially since the movie’s plot contains an approaching apocalypse and a door padlocked to keep its secrets contained.

But while “The Life of Chuck” is about loss and death, it is somehow a feel-good movie that embraces sentimentality as it celebrates living. Its centerpiece is a joyous scene (albeit one laced with poignant undertones) where Chuck (Tom Hiddleston) and a stranger named Janice (Annalise Basso) dance in the street to the drums of a busker (played by a dynamo who goes by the moniker, The Pocket Queen).

The film also stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gill

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