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"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
"Jackass" Meets Public Health in "Super Size Me."
Morgan Spurlock makes a stunt documentary that goes down easy.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Greg Beacham |
06-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Morgan Spurlock, Super Size Me
"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
House of Ha-Ha
The comedy, reality and tragedy of NBC's Last Comic Standing.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
06-17-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Gates of Hell Open a Little Wider for TV Plastic Surgeons
If the first three episodes of Season 2 are any indication, the entirety of this darkly comic drama's first season was just a toe in the waters of what a network can get away with on basic cable.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
06-12-2004 |
TV
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
"Six Feet Under" Is Back, Looking Almost Alive
The fourth-season premiere of the HBO series is every bit as maudlin and humorless as most of last season, but, fortunately, subsequent episodes are as lively and darkly funny as anything from that wondrous summer of Season One.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
06-07-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
