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Review of The Second Mother (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 17 Sep 2015

It's always presumptuous to suggest that a filmmaker doesn't realize where her narrative's attention should be directed, yet it's hard not…

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Review of Grandma (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 17 Sep 2015

It's a mellow journey backed by an acoustic guitar soundtrack, never building any emotional response stronger than the warm fuzzies…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (1984)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 03 Sep 2015

Despite the solid performances by Robbie and Ejiofor in particular, it simply pokes along as a golden-toned Nicholas Sparks melodrama version…

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Review of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 03 Sep 2015

Sure, Jobs was a genius and a jerk, but Gibney spends so much time rambling and musing that we don't get a chance to understand why so many…

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Review of A Walk in the Woods (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 03 Sep 2015

There's almost nothing here beyond the opportunity to watch two veteran actors play off one another -- and it turns out that's enough…

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Review of Z for Zachariah (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 03 Sep 2015

Despite the solid performances by Robbie and Ejiofor in particular, it simply pokes along as a golden-toned Nicholas Sparks melodrama version…

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Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 27 Aug 2015

Heller and her cast find too many piercingly honest moments for the movie ever to feel like a wallow in exploitation…

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Review of Meru (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 27 Aug 2015

You know a documentary is working when you see its subjects talking about events that have already happened, yet you're still anxiously wondering…

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Review of We Are Your Friends (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 27 Aug 2015

The buzz of restless energy in co-writer/director Max Joseph's movie at times keeps it from finding a groove, but it certainly captures the…

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Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 27 Aug 2015

Whatever Baumbach and Gerwig want to say about the inspirational charms of life's colorful, flaky characters, they can find a way to say it…

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Review of American Ultra (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 26 Aug 2015

Occasionally, a movie feels like it was built specifically to show up on the midnight circuit, but there's something about trying to be a cult…

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Review of Best of Enemies (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 26 Aug 2015

[A] colorful and entertaining a portrait of that moment -- and the fascinating personalities who created it…

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Review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 13 Aug 2015

There's no weight to any of this stuff, but it has enough fizz that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. doesn't feel derivative…

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Review of Dark Places (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 06 Aug 2015

Without enough material to develop her character, Theron is left to over-play Libby's anger awkwardly…

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Review of Ricki and the Flash (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 06 Aug 2015

Execution in art is everything -- which is why it's possible for director Jonathan Demme, writer Diablo Cody and a great group of actors to…

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Review of Irrational Man (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 06 Aug 2015

We get the kind of expository nonsense that has crippled so many late-period Allen films, including double voice-over narration by Abe and…

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Review of Fantastic Four (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 06 Aug 2015

The end result is a patchwork monster that, by its third act, is almost painful to watch, even if everyone in Hollywood really should watch…

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Review of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 06 Aug 2015

A joyous mix of simple family-friendly narrative and a no-nonsense duck being paid off for his part in a scheme with slices of bread…

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Review of The Look of Silence (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 06 Aug 2015

The Act of Killing was one of the most emotionally staggering explorations ever filmed about how easy it is to justify horrible evils; this…

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Review of The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 31 Jul 2015

It's a film with so much it wants to say that the words sometimes collide…

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