Keith Uhlich

4/21/16

The most memorable thing about A Hologram For The King is its title

There was once a blithe, carefree time when Tom Hanks could tap out a tune on a life-size keyboard in FAO Schwarz.…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedApril 21, 2016

3/8/16

Julie Delpy’s Lolo is a comedy more dark than romantic

Some guys just can’t carry a tuna. Witness Jean-René (Dany Boon), a provincial Frenchman who accidentally drops a…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedMarch 8, 2016

1/21/16

The second X-Files movie is much better than its reputation suggests

It was the summer of 2008, and the second movie of a beloved series neared release. Advertising was prevalent and…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedJanuary 21, 2016

8/20/15

The scares are scarce in Sinister 2

Bughuul is back! But what can he do for an encore? The horror-movie faithful already know what drives the…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedAugust 20, 2015

7/23/15

Samba is as risible as The Intouchables

On the evidence of their worldwide smash The Intouchables, as well as their latest comedy-drama Samba,…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedJuly 23, 2015

7/9/15

Do I Sound Gay?, asks the director of this brisk doc on the queer community

David Thorpe doesn’t like the way he sounds. Fresh out of a long-term relationship and quickly approaching midlife,…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedJuly 9, 2015

7/2/15

Save yourselves from the insufferable Manhattan lovers of In Stereo

They’re a match made in heaven. But unfortunately, photographer David Gallo (Micah Hauptman) and actress Brenda…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedJuly 2, 2015

6/25/15

Batkid Begins milks a touching human-interest story for everything it’s worth

Safe to say that everyone with an internet connection is aware of the story of Miles Scott, the 5-year-old leukemia…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedJune 25, 2015

6/4/15

Famous wartime memoir Testament Of Youth gets a boring BBC adaptation

English writer Vera Brittain’s 1933 memoir, Testament Of Youth, is widely beloved, an account of the bestselling…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedJune 4, 2015

5/28/15

Alas, Survivor is just a lame Milla Jovovich vehicle, not a Destiny’s Child biopic

The latest from director James “V For Vendetta” McTeigue is bunk of the very lowest level. (And, despite the title,…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedMay 28, 2015

5/21/15

Sunshine Superman doesn’t reach the great heights its daredevil subject did

Acrophobics need not apply to Marah Strauch’s documentary about the late Carl Boenish, the father of the modern BASE…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedMay 21, 2015

5/14/15

Blythe Danner transcends the indie mediocrity of I’ll See You In My Dreams

There’s been a mini-spate of low-budget vehicles for older actresses recently—shoestring-budget films that feel…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedMay 14, 2015

5/7/15

There’s a little too much Scorsese in the bad-cop documentary The Seven Five

Lately, it seems not a day goes by without some report of police corruption or brutality. The image of a cop who,…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedMay 7, 2015

4/16/15

The Reconstruction Of William Zero is kind of a poor man’s Upstream Color

William Blakely thinks he’s a clone. Or at least he will soon enough. Initially, William (co-writer Conal Byrne)…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedApril 16, 2015

4/9/15

Dior And I is an entertaining glimpse behind the curtain of a fashion empire

Clothes make the man, so the saying goes. But does the reverse hold true? Read a synopsis of Frédéric Tcheng’s…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedApril 9, 2015

4/2/15

There’s a little Tarantino and a lot of Spike Lee in the mediocre The Girl Is In Trouble

The fingerprints of executive producer Spike Lee are all over cowriter-director Julius Onah’s middling feature-film…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedApril 2, 2015

3/26/15

With The Salt Of The Earth, Wim Wenders takes a snapshot of a famous shutterbug

It was a black-and-white image of diggers toiling in a muddy gold mine that first drew filmmaker Wim Wenders to the…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedMarch 26, 2015

3/12/15

The thrilling Cymbeline re-teams Ethan Hawke and William Shakespeare

In 2000, writer-director Michael Almereyda took on the best of William Shakespeare, transposing the seminal tragedy H…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedMarch 12, 2015

3/5/15

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken is as lousy as its lager namesake

The kidnapping of Dutch businessman and brewing company CEO Freddy Heineken (surely not a Pabst Blue Ribbon guy)…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedMarch 5, 2015

2/26/15

The star-studded Airport movies reach great heights of unintentional comedy

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new…

Keith Uhlich

PublishedFebruary 26, 2015