AltWeeklies Wire
Losing Score
A potentially intriguing film gets drowned in musical melodrama in Notes on a Scandal.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
01-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Notes on a Scandal, Richard Eyre
Ring Cycle
Rocky Balboa works better in the past tense than in the present.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
Trio Life
Dreamgirls hits most of the right notes for drama told through song.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
Bread Winner
Old-school human drama just plain works in The Pursuit of Happyness.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-07-2006 |
Reviews
New World Ardor
Gibson captures the simple (500-year-old) story of an intense personal quest in Apocalypto.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson
Immortal Purposes
An attempt at epic philosophy falls short in The Fountain.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
License Renewed
Casino Royale breathes fresh life into James Bond.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Casino Royale, Martin Campbell
Meat and Greet
Fast Food Nation turns visceral journalism into theoretical conversation.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-09-2006 |
Reviews
Sour Grapes
A Good Year suggests that Ridley Scott should never ever attempt comedy again.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, A Good Year
The Shot Blurred Round the World
Is Babel's culture-spanning drama epic -- or merely unfocused?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel
Fully Committed
Sacha Baron Cohen creates fearless satire for the ages in Borat.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Borat, Larry Charles
Tricked Out
The Prestige builds to the Big Reveal, but there's not enough up its sleeve.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
'Infernal' Repairs
The Departed takes a Hong Kong thriller and gives it a masterful polish.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Numbers Game
The Guardian hits its formulaic marks -- just not efficiently enough.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Davis, The Guardian
L. A. Inconsequential
The Black Dahlia turns a lurid tale into a film of glossy surfaces.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian De Palma, The Black Dahlia
