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Review of Monkey Kingdom (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 16 Apr 2015

It might be tempting to roll your eyes at the Disney-ness of it all…

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Review of Wild Tales (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 16 Apr 2015

There are plenty of satisfying moments throughout, enough that perhaps it's better to think about how this would play as a weekly series…

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Review of Woman in Gold (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 09 Apr 2015

Your movie's flashback sub-plot shouldn't draw attention to how dull your actual central plot is…

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Review of The Longest Ride (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 09 Apr 2015

A Sparks movie will never completely want for melodrama, but it's nice to find one where the melo- is a bit more mellow…

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Review of Danny Collins (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 09 Apr 2015

It's become something of a snarky joke about emotionally manipulative entertainment, but when you can honestly say I laughed, I cried, somebody's…

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Review of Freetown (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 09 Apr 2015

It's a satisfying surprise indeed to find a Mormon movie willing to confront the church's legacy of racism head-on…

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Review of While We're Young (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 09 Apr 2015

Baumbach knows we're all wondering if we're on the right life track, and While We're Young once again shows that he understands how funny that…

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Review of The King's Speech (2010)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 20 Feb 2015

The surprise may be that for all the attention on Firth -- who's certainly good -- Rush actually proves more impressive…

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Review of The Artist (2011)

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

What's not to like about The Artist? And then again, what is there, exactly, to love about it…

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Review of The Avengers (2012)

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

Shrug however you might at a story that has to pack so many characters and tangents into 140 minutes; it will still be difficult for me to…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 04 Jan 2015

It's about the strangeness of love in all its forms, with Sachs' quiet, observational style capturing tensions on a small scale between the…

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Review of We Are the Best! (2013)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 04 Jan 2015

The beautifully authentic performances by the three bandmates capture that brief life moment when nearly everything can feel like a scary,…

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Review of Annie (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 19 Dec 2014

It's ultimately hard to resist a family-friendly film that's this confident and energetic -- and genuinely funny -- without ever pandering…

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Review of Land Ho! (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 18 Sep 2014

The scenery is lovely, the performances are pleasant, and it's the kind of movie it's hard to imagine anyone walking out of. It's nice…

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Review of A Most Wanted Man (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 24 Jul 2014

[Bovell's screenplay] effectively strips down le Carré's narrative to a tense exploration of espionage in a world of constant fear, where…

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Review of Wadjda (2012)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 10 Dec 2013

Wadjda generally feels anchored in the authentic-feeling life of one authentic-feeling girl…

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Review of What Maisie Knew (2013)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 13 Jun 2013

It's far from the first story of a child dealing with the consequences of parental break-up -- but it may be one of the best…

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Review of Man of Steel (2013)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 12 Jun 2013

Snyder cranks up the apocalyptic donnybrook, sending the combatants blasting through skyscrapers and punching one another into exploding tanker…

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Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 21 Mar 2013

Olympus Has Fallen clicks on most of the levels where you need genre movie-making to click…

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Review of Reel Paradise (2005)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 24 Oct 2005

Though these scenes may have energy, they're also mostly noise -- distractions from a collection of scenes without a driving force…

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