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)) (Substack)
Official Website:
http://www.toxicuniverse.com
Mercy (2026)
23%
EDIT
“Is this movie more interesting than a YouTube recording of Chris Pratt extolling RFK Jr. on Club Random with Bill Maher?” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Jan 24, 2026
Full Review
Dust Bunny (2025)
85%
EDIT
“Dust Bunny thrives for a good while on Fuller’s fertile imagination, which here asks "What if Leon: The Professional but with a ravenous oversized leporid?” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Jan 24, 2026
Full Review
Return to Silent Hill (2026)
17%
EDIT
“Has a digi-augmented chintziness on the one hand. On the other, the thought "Lady and the Duke-era Eric Rohmer doing Hellraiser" came frequently to mind.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Jan 24, 2026
Full Review
Cover-Up (2025)
98%
EDIT
“When it comes to the darker shades of Hersh's personality and pursuits, Poitras and Obenhaus tend to pull a Homer Simpson-style hedge retreat rather than probe deeper into the behavioral and psychological verdure.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Jan 18, 2026
Full Review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
93%
EDIT
“I’ve been singing O’Connell’s praises in The North Water (2021) for years now and will just redirect readers there for an example of what he can do when he’s not being asked to madcaply, monotonously gambol like a lep’ in tha hood/come to do no good.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Jan 18, 2026
Full Review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
87%
EDIT
“I never miss a Shaker musical!” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Jan 10, 2026
Full Review
The Housemaid (2025)
73%
EDIT
“It’s Feig attempting Park Chan-wook’s Gone Girl and…yeah, I’m good, m’guy.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Jan 10, 2026
Full Review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
66%
2/4
EDIT
“The movie moves at a clip and looks like hundreds of millions of bucks have been spent, which isn’t the same thing as saying that its 3D visuals are particularly beautiful.” –
Slant Magazine
Dec 16, 2025
Full Review
Damsels in Distress (2011)
75%
4/5
EDIT
“Too many movies come to us as preordained cult objects — this is the real deal.” –
Time Out
Nov 4, 2025
Full Review
The Long Day Closes (1992)
82%
5/5
EDIT
“Everything proceeds with a dreamy allusiveness that’s the product of a consciousness simultaneously recollecting and enduring these events.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Oct 31, 2025
Full Review
The Kid With a Bike (2011)
96%
5/5
EDIT
“Like much of the Dardennes’ output, The Kid with a Bike doubles as both an engrossingly perceptive human drama and a powerful religious parable.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Oct 27, 2025
Full Review
Blue Moon (2025)
90%
EDIT
“Engenders a robust longing for a blackout stupor.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Oct 26, 2025
Full Review
After the Hunt (2025)
37%
EDIT
“’nino doing Ryan Murphy’s Oleanna proves a most ineffectual pathway back to Light Likability.” –
Time Out
Oct 14, 2025
Full Review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025)
81%
3.5/4
EDIT
“Jim Jarmusch’s latest is haunted by mortality and the inevitable passage of time.
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Slant Magazine
Oct 10, 2025
Full Review
Pillion (2025)
100%
3/4
EDIT
“If there’s humor to be found in some of the particulars, it’s never to judge or to poke fun, but to revel in the very real delights of consensual sexual roleplay.” –
Slant Magazine
Oct 8, 2025
Full Review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)
61%
2/4
EDIT
“As Bruce Springsteen, Jeremy Allen White is all slouched posture and distant stares.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 29, 2025
Full Review
One Battle After Another (2025)
94%
2/4
EDIT
“Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark comedy One Battle After Another turns overreaching into an art form.” –
Slant Magazine
Sep 17, 2025
Full Review
The Vow (2012)
30%
2/5
EDIT
“Some brief flashbacks show us that this couple was so in love that they’d roll the car windows UP when one of them farted (the insight of our romantic movies these days, I tell you).” –
Time Out
Aug 24, 2025
Full Review
Safe House (2012)
52%
2/5
EDIT
“A first-quarter Hollywood release par excellence. Meaning not.” –
Time Out
Aug 24, 2025
Full Review
Highest 2 Lowest (2025)
83%
EDIT
“Is this Spike exercising Schumerian/Jefferiesian finger-wag (the doleful cinema of the strongly worded letter) or sending up same? Six, one. Half-dozen, other. Knicks game at 7!” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Aug 8, 2025
Full Review
The Naked Gun (2025)
87%
EDIT
“The modern cops-’n’-revengers aesthetics being lampooned are already more than a little self-aware of their absurdity, where the disaster flicks and TV policiers that inspired Zuck-Abes-Zuck proved perfect templates for fully ripened parody.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Aug 1, 2025
Full Review
The Woman in Black (2012)
66%
4/5
EDIT
“There isn’t a bump in the night that this gripping chiller from the newly re-formed Hammer Productions doesn’t utilize.” –
Time Out
Jun 28, 2025
Full Review
Contraband (2012)
50%
2/5
EDIT
“Amounts to little more than Marky Mark’s South American Vacation.” –
Time Out
May 9, 2025
Full Review
The Gold Rush (1925)
98%
5/5
EDIT
“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.” –
(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)
Mar 31, 2025
Full Review
Immortals (2011)
50%
3/5
EDIT
“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
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