Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows Shop News Showtimes
Publications list

(All (Parentheses))

(All (Parentheses)) is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Keith Uhlich.

Prev Next
Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) Keith Uhlich This state-of-the-(dis)union character drama proves ultimately gentle where Sayles’s grindhouse projects go thematically and aesthetically blunt.
Posted Feb 08, 2024
Foe (2023) Keith Uhlich I liked the part where clone Paul Mescal gets shrink-wrapped.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
Poor Things (2023) Keith Uhlich Tim Burton directs a Marxist-feminist screensaver.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
Strange Way of Life (2023) Keith Uhlich Primo dom bottom energy from both Pedros.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) Keith Uhlich A clear and clean Palme d’Or winner, every ambiguity and “unexpected” choice so carefully thought-through that awards can’t help but be thrown at it.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
Priscilla (2023) Keith Uhlich A mixed bag, a Marie Antoinette without the sick-inducing binge-’n’-purge political import.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
Maestro (2023) Keith Uhlich Sad elder-gay Lenny letting loose to Tears for Fears a pleasurable respite amid all the officially sanctioned bio-dreck.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
Hit Man (2023) Keith Uhlich It’s as if Linklater is playing posthumous wingman for his subject, giving him the rom-com-slick Hollywood ending he never got in life.
Posted Oct 27, 2023
The Zone of Interest (2023) Keith Uhlich The result is depraved in its way, at once a po-faced drama of ignorant domestic bliss and a dryly details-oriented workplace sitcom from Hell, a Kubrick/Tarkovsky acolyte fusing The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas with Heil Honey I’m Home!
Posted Sep 25, 2023
Perfect Days (2023) Keith Uhlich Jeanne Dielman without the shocks to the system; Wenders’ own Paris, Texas without the emotional-topographical spine of Sam Shepard’s script and Harry Dean Stanton’s sensational lead performance.
Posted Sep 08, 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Keith Uhlich That Ford is the one who seems most engaged here is perhaps the biggest surprise, given how gruffly above-it-all he can be onscreen when disinterested. His affection for Indiana Jones can’t be bought, even though he was.
Posted Jun 15, 2023
Little Murders (1971) Keith Uhlich In Little Murders, art — itself included — provides no sufficient response to chaos and barbarity. [Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin]
Posted Feb 27, 2023
Infinity Pool (2023) Keith Uhlich True to its title, Infinity Pool ebbs to a non-point
Posted Jan 25, 2023
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Keith Uhlich Possesses a tonal coldness that aligns viewers with the assassin’s reptilian machinations. —Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin
Posted Dec 20, 2022
3/5
Douchebag (2010) Keith Uhlich Andrew Dickler gives an inspired comic performance, but the film never entirely overcomes the sense that it’s a calling-card vehicle.
Posted Nov 13, 2022
Pinocchio (2022) Keith Uhlich Think of this Pinocchio, at its best, as Zemeckis’s conglomerate-backed cultural critique, a nauseated state of the artistic union typified by a scene in which our little timber-carved innocent quizzically contemplates a steaming pile of horse dung.
Posted Sep 08, 2022
Pierrot le Fou (1965) Keith Uhlich Represents a high watermark of the art film, and in no small measure due to its despair over the artist’s ambivalent, uncertain role in an era of aesthetic, technological, and political turmoil. —Guest Post by Michael Joshua Rowin
Posted Sep 06, 2022
Nope (2022) Keith Uhlich There was one horrible moment when I thought the film was going to reveal itself as a stealth Cloverfield installment. Thank heaven for small favors.
Posted Jul 20, 2022
Young Man With a Horn (1950) Keith Uhlich Rick Martin's (Kirk Douglas) longing for artistic transcendence is melodramatically depicted as wholly other to the desires of the audience.—Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin
Posted Jul 19, 2022
Ikiru (1952) Keith Uhlich Kurosawa’s masterpiece endures, still finding new ways to scare me and speak to me after all this time. —Guest post by Kenji Fujishima
Posted Jun 10, 2022
Rope (1948) Keith Uhlich Hitchcock examines his and his audience’s participatory roles in a centuries-old circuit of art production and reception. —Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin
Posted Jun 10, 2022
The Square (2017) Keith Uhlich The Square foregrounds a dilemma at the core of artistic practice: as moving and influential as it can be, art too often exists in a realm separated from “real life,” cordoned off as safely “consumable” entertainment. —Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin
Posted Jun 10, 2022
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Keith Uhlich 'Maverick' is an absurdity masking several horrors, chief among them the continued indulgence of Cruise’s virile death wish, which for me nullifies any pleasure reaped from his present-day status as The Last Movie Star™.
Posted May 19, 2022
The Batman (2022) Keith Uhlich The film I imagine Ricky Fitts would grow up to make after the events of 'American Beauty.'
Posted Mar 24, 2022
Deception (2021) Keith Uhlich Many have tried, and most have failed, at successfully translating Philip Roth from page to screen. Arnaud Desplechin makes it work.
Posted Mar 24, 2022
After Yang (2021) Keith Uhlich Much too 'Instagram Stories: The Motion Picture' for my taste.
Posted Mar 24, 2022
Kimi (2022) Keith Uhlich Soderbergh’s artistry is, at this point, all compulsion. His restless need to create is perfect, business-wise, for the age of “content,” less so if one hopes for more.
Posted Mar 04, 2022
Il buco (2021) Keith Uhlich A superb meld of sound, image and ruminative essence.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021) Keith Uhlich There's an overall wobbliness to most of the meanderings, as if Koberidze is too besotted with the conceptual possibilities of his digressions, and so fails to hone them into something truly special.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
The Tsugua Diaries (2021) Keith Uhlich The kind of irritating movie-about-moviemaking comprised more of artistic referents than lived experience.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
Benedetta (2021) Keith Uhlich Shart is sexy.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
Bergman Island (2021) Keith Uhlich That the film manages to attain vast levels of emotional resonance speaks to Hansen-Løve's talent for mining her characters' quiet lives for all they're worth.
Posted Nov 16, 2021
Titane (2021) Keith Uhlich The film's provocations rarely rise to the schoolyard-japing level of Ken Russell. (Tom Six's derriere-devouring oeuvre is more this shameless movie's speed.)
Posted Nov 16, 2021
3/5
Ondine (2009) Keith Uhlich An intriguing mix of working-class grit and childlike fantasy that never fully comes together.
Posted Nov 08, 2021
Old (2021) Keith Uhlich In macro, the film explores pandemic-era anxieties about the corporate entities that hold life-or-death sway over society, but it's on the micro level that I found myself moved.
Posted Aug 03, 2021
Pig (2021) Keith Uhlich [Photographed] in the way of so many modern indies, with a sickly color palette and dim lighting that prosaically emphasizes the natural environs over people's faces. (A good friend of mine termed this aesthetic "Vimeo-link Cinema.")
Posted Jul 27, 2021
No Sudden Move (2021) Keith Uhlich The film's got plenty of ideas that you've heard before. (All it needs is Mark Ruffalo popping in to scream, "The system is rigged!")
Posted Jul 03, 2021
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) Keith Uhlich Let's not forget that the Snyder Cut was in part willed into being by a toxic social media campaign, mob rule begetting a mystical monocultural object that is finally much bigger than its ostensible creator.
Posted Mar 26, 2021
Kid 90 (2021) Keith Uhlich Breezy on the surface, brutal underneath.
Posted Mar 26, 2021
Mank (2020) Keith Uhlich Mank is a love letter and a poison pen, though like much of its meticulous director's output, this film (that's not a film, though it's often made to look like one) is weighed down by the burden of time.
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Malmkrog (2020) Keith Uhlich Puiu makes hilarious comedies at which I never once laugh, and this is among his bleakest and blackest farces.
Posted Nov 20, 2020
Nomadland (2020) Keith Uhlich The film takes place in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. But it might as well be in an alternate universe where no one speaks above a whisper and "America" remains a vaguely benign abstraction.
Posted Oct 19, 2020
Married to the Mob (1988) Keith Uhlich Demme sees corruption-the potential for it and the indulgence of it-in everyone. Yet he doesn't neglect the humanity of the people in thrall to or trapped within those systems.
Posted Oct 07, 2020
Prev Next