Mattie Lucas is a freelance film critic whose work has appeared in print in the Lexington Dispatch from 2004-2020. He founded From the Front Row in 2006 where he has been steadily writing reviews ever since, and has also been a Staff Critic at In Review Online since 2009. When he isn’t watching or reviewing movies he spends his time as an actor and a non-profit administrator. Mattie resides in Boone, North Carolina with his wife and daughter.