AltWeeklies Wire
Cary On
Touch of Pink creates a realistic Cary Grant, but no realistic human comedy
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Ian Iqbal Rashid, Touch of Pink
Wireless Fu
The Twilight Samurai is less clashing swords than romantic parlor drama.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Twilight Samurai, Yoji Yomada
After the Fire
Ladder 49 effectively balances humanizing and lionizing its firefighter heroes.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jay Russell, Ladder 49
Vet Management
Going Upriver succeeds at making John Kerry look presidential ... 30 years ago.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
"Shrek 2" Avoids the Expected Sequel Pitfallsnew
Freed from the need to be the cocky "anti-Disney," SHREK 2 gets hilariously comfortable in its own skin.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Adamson, Shrek 2
Potter and Chums Enter Awkward Phasenew
With a new director on board, Harry Potter -- both the character and the franchise -- make a move from childhood to maturity.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Walken in L.A.
Tom Cruise tries to bring philosophical hit man panache to Michael Mann's stylish Collateral.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Mann, Collateral
Shark and Awe
A little nerve-wracking real-life terror carries Open Water only so far.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Kentis, Open Water
Burning Bridges
All hail Jeff Bridges -- the new Greatest Living American Actor -- in The Door in the Floor.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-29-2004 |
Reviews
"Before Sunset" Shows the Sorrow of the Road Not Taken
The sequel to "Before Sunrise" finds a beautiful romantic memory re-cast as a tragic shadow.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Linklater, Before Sunset
"Napoleon Dynamite" Laughs with Its Characters, Not at Them
Forget condescension: There's something deeply affectionate in the hilarious private Idaho of director Jared Hess.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite
Jonathan Demme Loses His Documentary Touch in "The Agronomist"
Once upon a time in the 1980s, director Jonathan Demme’s made some of the decade’s best non-fiction features, but if "The Agronomist" is any indication, he’s forgotten every instinct for documentary subtlety he once possessed.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Demme, The Agronomist
"Fahrenheit 9/11" Presents a Good Message from a Bad Messenger
How do you respond to Michael Moore's film when you want to agree with the message, but have come to doubt every word that comes out of the messenger’s self-aggrandizing mouth?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Bipolar Express
Steven Spielberg can't integrate the entertainer and the serious artist in "The Terminal."
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-11-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Spielberg, The Terminal
