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Third Whirled
Despite noble intentions, The Constant Gardener eventually starts running in circles.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-23-2005 |
Reviews
Sometimes a Fantasy
Terry Gilliam comfortably treads familiar surreal ground in The Brothers Grimm.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm
Plane and Simple
Wes Craven's Red Eye offers a lesson in making a taut, efficient thriller.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Wes Craven, Red Eye
Keepin’ It Unreal
A sibling story dissolves into clichés in the urban drama Four Brothers.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-02-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Four Brothers, John Singleton
Yee-Huh?
The Dukes of Hazzard will try anything to be an amiable time-waster.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-02-2005 |
Reviews
The Break Fist Club
The spirit of John Hughes energizes the hero high school romp Sky High.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Mitchell, Sky High
Crock of the Bay
American cinema’s poster boy for excess blows up The Island.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Bay, The Island
Hauteur Theory
Because he can’t get over himself, Tim Burton squeezes himself into Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-12-2005 |
Reviews
Meanwhile, Back at the Raunch
Wedding Crashers recalls a golden era of unapologetic crude comedy -- at least for a while.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Space Invaders
Post-9/11 allegory wrestles with blockbuster action in War of the Worlds
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-28-2005 |
Reviews
Bothered and Bewildered
Why bury Will Ferrell’s comic brilliance just so the movie can be called Bewitched?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched
Nuts and Bats
Christopher Nolan digs into a superhero’s psyche in the dark, risky Batman Begins.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
Gag Reflex
With Madagascar, non-Pixar computer animation still offers more jokes and less heart.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-24-2005 |
Reviews
Magnum Opie
Cinderella Man once again proves Ron Howard’s mettle as Hollywood craftsman.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cinderella Man, Ron Howard
Bad Profile
There's a reason Mindhunters sat on a studio shelf for three years.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Renny Harlin, Mindhunters
