AltWeeklies Wire
Old Dog’s New Tricks
Lasse Hallstrom emerges from "respectability" to craft the frisky The Hoax.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
03-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lasse Hallstrom, The Hoax
Villain Station
Meet the Robinsons proves Disney can still create a bad guy -- and a movie -- without Pixar.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
03-26-2007 |
Reviews
Not a Mourning Person
Reign Over Me awkwardly mixes national tragedy with sit-com humor.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
03-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Binder, Reign Over Me
Past Imperfect
Premonition takes another one of cinema's misguided trips through time.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
03-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mennan Yapo, Premonition
Strike a Pose
300 burdens its exercise in style with too many righteous speeches.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
03-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 300, Zack Snyder
Vicious Cycle
Wild Hogs rides a nasty strain of gay-panic humor.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
02-22-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Walt Becker, Wild Hogs
I Love the '70s
Craig Brewer awkwardly mixes exploitation cinema with therapy in Black Snake Moan.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
02-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Snake Moan, Craig Brewer
It Had to Be Hugh
Music and Lyrics shows that Hugh Grant still has the romantic comedy chops.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
02-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Lawrence, Music and Lyrics
Care Bearers
Pedro Almodovar celebrates communities of female mutual support in Volver.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
01-15-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Zeal Island
In Letters from Iwo Jima, the real battle is over ideology.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
01-05-2007 |
Reviews
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
