Keith Uhlich

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Slant Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Time Out
For 754 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 35% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Keith Uhlich's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 Level Five
Lowest review score: 0 The Do-Over
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 218 out of 754
  2. Mixed: 467 out of 754
  3. Negative: 69 out of 754
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    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Finding Vivian Maier
    Maier’s images are truly stunning—vivid documents of the working class that are off-the-cuff yet rigorously composed, always capturing that enigmatic bit of her subject’s soul that leaves you in spine-tingled awe.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Keith Uhlich
    Funny Face
    Sensation trumps cogitation-unsurprising in a Hollywood production-which doesn't negate the enduring allure of this beautiful bauble.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Keith Uhlich
    Heimat is a Space in Time
    Heimat certainly has the feel of a summative work
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Uhlich
    Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
    The story is kept at a stress-inducing simmer, with occasional surges of operatic emotion.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 40 Keith Uhlich
    Frozen
    The story — aside from a climax that plays like a too-knowing rebuke to Disney formula — goes tediously through the motions. It isn’t only Papa Walt’s head that’s been put on ice.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Tabloid
    Unlike a great Morris film such as "Gates of Heaven" or "Mr. Death," where the quirks of character feel connected to a larger, profoundly insightful vision of humanity, Tabloid never gets beyond its idiosyncratic surface.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Frankenweenie
    Though the tale demands a darker outcome, the director disappointingly goes the Mouse House happy-ending route with a reprise of the original short film's finale - one that somehow plays with even more cringeworthy sentimentality.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Polisse
    Polisse builds to one of the most hilariously misguided climaxes ever conceived; let's just say that this soapy symphony of squalor literally doesn't stick the landing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Keith Uhlich
    Computer Chess
    What’s past is prescient, and what it all means is beside the point. Let’s just say Bujalski has made a prankishly out-of-time movie about that other AI: mankind.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Keith Uhlich
    Farewell
    Director Christian Carion (Merry Christmas) establishes a low-key yet threatening atmosphere right from the start, and gets terrific performances from Kusturica and Canet.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Keith Uhlich
    Bones and All
    Both Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet are sadly at a disadvantage given how many of the older actors gnaw at the scenery like it’s a still-warm cadaver.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Keith Uhlich
    Winnie the Pooh
    It never feels as if we're watching a brand-name cash-grab, but instead as if we're participating in an endlessly imaginative afternoon of play.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Keith Uhlich
    Armageddon Time
    The film is an illustration of the transition from the ethical pliancy of youth to the moral discernment of adulthood.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Stonewall Uprising
    The filmmakers do a good job of laying out the whos, whys and wheres through diagrams, reenactments and testimonials from veterans on both sides of the skirmish.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    After Tiller
    This is not a choice made lightly by anyone involved, but the admirable, multilayered toughness of these sequences is unfortunately weakened by the filmmakers’ saccharine touch whenever they explore the doctors’ personal lives.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Keith Uhlich
    Circus of Books
    [A] very funny, very moving documentary.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    The Pirogue
    There's enough filmmaking talent evident throughout that you wish the journey were more satisfying overall.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 100 Keith Uhlich
    Neil Young Journeys
    This time around, the director documents a 2011 Young solo show in Toronto (the musician's birthplace), but in an intentionally fractured way.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Source Code
    What begins as a tense, inventive suspense film becomes, to paraphrase Doctor Who, a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, mushy-wushy mess. That's decidedly NOT fantastic.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Joe
    Yet Green, as is his wont, too often strains for poetic effect through flowery voiceover and tone-deaf interactions — like those between Joe and his latest short-term girlfriend — that undercut the genuineness.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Keith Uhlich
    The House of the Devil
    West is far more adept at and interested in sustaining an unrelentingly ominous mood than in executing the genre-required spook shocks.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Keith Uhlich
    The Iron Lady
    This iron lady of cinema deserves better.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Keith Uhlich
    Blue Beard
    The most impressive aspect of Breillat’s feature is that it agitates like the best fairy tales, seducing us with otherworldliness before sticking the knife in and permanently inscribing the moral.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Keith Uhlich
    The Best Offer
    The fully committed Rush, at least, commands our constant attention, and no movie with a kookier-than-usual Ennio Morricone score (dig those staccato-chanting chorines!) could ever be a total waste of canvas.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Indie Game: The Movie
    This is a movie about a subculture, made for that subculture; only hard-core Xboxers need apply.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    My Soul to Take
    There are plenty of formulaic boo! moments, yet Craven intelligently treats Bug's otherworldly issues like hormonal growing pains that must be tamed.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Keith Uhlich
    Ferrari
    That liminal space between the peaks and the valleys of a person’s life is what Michael Mann is most interested in exploring.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Summer Pasture
    The subjects - a husband and wife struggling to make ends meet, mostly for the well-being of their infant daughter - are eminently engaging.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Keith Uhlich
    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Well, Ghost Protocol ultimately ends up as an eye-rollingly towering totem to L. Ron's favorite son, complete with treacly music cues and longing glances - bromantic and otherwise - that will send you screaming into the thetan-stealing clutches of Lord Xenu.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 100 Keith Uhlich
    Bam gua nat
    Filmmakers from Jacques Rivette to Hou Hsiao-hsien have treated the City of Light like Alice’s rabbit hole; writer-director Hong Sang-soo similarly embraces the fantasy, but goes one step further in this extraordinary character study by fully erasing the line that separates the actual from the fictional.
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