Keith Uhlich
Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:
I don't know Butchie instead.
Publications:
The Hollywood Reporter,
Time Out,
Slant Magazine,
AV Club,
Reverse Shot,
IndieWire,
Brooklyn Magazine,
House Next Door,
Senses of Cinema,
Reeler,
Baltimore City Paper,
UGO,
Time Out Sydney,
MUBI,
(All (Parentheses))
Official Website:
http://www.toxicuniverse.com
The Gold Rush (1925)
100%
5/5
“This greatest of silent comedies could be subtitled “Hunger” — not just for a decent meal, but for financial stability, for the love of a good woman and for a house that isn’t perched precariously on the edge of a cliff.” –
Time Out
Mar 31, 2025
Full Review
Immortals (2011)
50%
3/5
“Tarsem's work is infinitely more exhilarating when he’s relieved of the need to be in any way serious. He should play dumb more often.” –
Time Out
Jan 28, 2025
Full Review
Nosferatu (2024)
84%
3.5/4
“Robert Eggers’s sublimely severe remake is less a composition for full ensemble and more a moody piece of chamber music, equally as orchestrated as the Murnau, but uncomfortably intimate in its effects.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 4, 2024
Full Review
Here (2024)
37%
“Some vindication felt after I previously compared Zemeckis’ bizarro Pinocchio redo to De Oliveira and now he’s gone and riffed on Rohmer’s Lady and the Duke. With a soupçon, come computer-generated finale, of digi-Sirk. (Let the blown mind emojis flow!)” –
(All (Parentheses))
Nov 1, 2024
Full Review
The Room Next Door (2024)
81%
“Almodóvar maintains Sigrid Nunez’s blithe, gently bitchy discursiveness while putting his own gloriously gay stamp on it.” –
(All (Parentheses))
Oct 25, 2024
Full Review
Nickel Boys (2024)
91%
“Nickel Boys is in constant dialogue with itself, as well as in enduring search of moments that feel caught, even as they’re inevitably preconceived.” –
(All (Parentheses))
Oct 16, 2024
Full Review
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024)
3/4
“In a strange and very sad way, the Ukraine invasion gives Julia Loktev’s movie its sense of purpose.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 7, 2024
Full Review
Queer (2024)
77%
2/4
“In the end, Luca Guadagnino effectively turns a very complicated literary figure into the kind of blubbering, nostalgic old man you’d expect to see in a student film or a Sundance prizewinner.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 7, 2024
Full Review
The Brutalist (2024)
93%
“Hardly a loving riff on Citizen Kane or The Godfather, it’s more accurately Buffalo Bill parading the flayed skin of Elia Kazan’s America America.” –
(All (Parentheses))
Sep 24, 2024
Full Review
Harvest (2024)
55%
2.5/4
“The film is a handsomely mounted production in which much of the filth feels stage-managed.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 23, 2024
Full Review
Margaret (2011)
75%
5/5
“This is frayed-edges filmmaking at its finest.” –
Time Out
Aug 28, 2024
Full Review
Colombiana (2011)
28%
3/5
“The jittery action aesthetic is a bit grating (three cuts minimum per roundhouse kick), but the spectacularly named Olivier Megaton still manages to deliver the goods.” –
Time Out
Jul 1, 2024
Full Review
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
60%
3/5
“You can sense producer and cowriter Guillermo del Toro’s hand in every shadowy nook and cranny.” –
Time Out
Jul 1, 2024
Full Review
In a Violent Nature (2024)
78%
3.5/4
“Think Béla Tarr doing an unholy doc-fiction hybrid about Camp Crystal Lake.” –
Slant Magazine
May 28, 2024
Full Review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
90%
3.5/4
“The film attests to George Miller’s enduring aptitude for utilizing the ridiculous to achieve the sublime.” –
Slant Magazine
May 16, 2024
Full Review
Conan the Barbarian (2011)
25%
3/5
“The film’s secret weapon proves to be Freddy Krueger-fingernailed witch Marique — imagine a cross between Madeline Kahn in History of the World: Part I and Lady Gaga — that should garner Rose McGowan a Razzie and an Oscar.” –
Time Out
May 7, 2024
Full Review
One Day (2011)
37%
2/5
“Every dramatic incident is infused with the same level of watery-eyed, something-bad’s-gonna-happen portent.” –
Time Out
May 7, 2024
Full Review
The Smurfs (2011)
21%
1/5
“It makes you think about deep things, man, such as your own mortality.” –
Time Out
May 3, 2024
Full Review
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
81%
“This state-of-the-(dis)union character drama proves ultimately gentle where Sayles’s grindhouse projects go thematically and aesthetically blunt.” –
(All (Parentheses))
Feb 8, 2024
Full Review
Green Lantern (2011)
25%
2/5
“Whenever this Lantern returns to terra firma (too often), its imaginative flights are ground down under the Warner overlords’ demographic-pandering heels.” –
Time Out
Jan 22, 2024
Full Review
L'amour fou (2010)
4/5
“Perched somewhere between a sanded-edged official portrait and a keen examination of affluence run amok” –
Time Out
Jan 2, 2024
Full Review
The Color Purple (2023)
81%
2/4
“The film lacks the passion and the perspective to make the words and tunes truly resonate.
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Slant Magazine
Dec 19, 2023
Full Review
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
99%
3/4
“For all the unbridled destruction, Godzilla Minus One remains perversely light and fun, a Roland Emmerich-like disaster flick helmed by an actual talent.” –
Slant Magazine
Nov 28, 2023
Full Review
Foe (2023)
24%
“I liked the part where clone Paul Mescal gets shrink-wrapped.” –
(All (Parentheses))
Oct 27, 2023
Full Review
Poor Things (2023)
93%
“Tim Burton directs a Marxist-feminist screensaver.” –
(All (Parentheses))
Oct 27, 2023
Full Review
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