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Review of Rock the Kasbah (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 22 Oct 2015

It's staggering to see the contortions a movie will go through to take a story about a non-white, non-American woman and make it about a white…

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Review of The Dog (2013)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 18 Oct 2015

It's comprehensive, but that doesn't make it complete…

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Review of The Dog (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 18 Oct 2015

It's comprehensive, but that doesn't make it complete…

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Review of Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 18 Oct 2015

[Dog Day Afternoon] speaks to a particular moment in an edgy early 1970s New York City -- a post-Stonewall city of people figuring out identities,…

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Review of Bridge of Spies (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 15 Oct 2015

It's because of Hanks' performance that we understand that, whether it's hard or easy, doing the right thing is still doing the right thing…

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Review of Freeheld (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 15 Oct 2015

It's so hard for a film to fight through the reality that it's build around people giving speeches, especially when those speeches are meant…

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Review of Crimson Peak (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 15 Oct 2015

Guillermo Del Toro has long been a filmmaker who devotes nearly all of his energy to visual style, but he finds a solid foundation for his…

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Review of Goosebumps (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 15 Oct 2015

Goosebumps never really appears interested in delivering situations that are truly creepy, or in allowing brave, resourceful kids to be the…

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Review of How to Dance in Ohio (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 12 Oct 2015

There's such a fundamental sweetness and sensitivity at the core of Alexandra Shiva's documentary that it often doesn't matter that it's not…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 12 Oct 2015

Director John Crowley and screenwriter Nick Hornby take the story from Colm Tóibín's brilliant novel in a much more conventionally satisfying…

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Review of Brooklyn (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 12 Oct 2015

Director John Crowley and screenwriter Nick Hornby take the story from Colm Tóibín's brilliant novel in a much more conventionally satisfying…

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Review of Highway to Dhampus (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 08 Oct 2015

While the absence of cliché is a good start, the presence of a stronger arc would make for a better ending…

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Review of He Named Me Malala (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 08 Oct 2015

[Guggenheim] mostly seems determined to show how nice Malala is -- which feels disappointing, considering her work is all about girls refusing…

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Review of Pan (2015)

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

The character's singlemost defining trait is that he never wants to grow up…

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Review of Prophet's Prey (2015)

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

Despite the fragmented nature of Berg's exploration of this mysterious group, it's chilling when providing a comprehensive look at one happens…

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Review of Martian (2015)

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

At its core, it's a survival epic in which the hero is the scientific method: developing testable theories, gathering the data, refining the…

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Review of Skyfall (2012)

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

Skyfall acts as though every new James Bond adventure needs to earn our belief that he still matters, and that a secret agent with a soul can…

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Review of The Walk (2015)

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

It's been so long since we've seen the Robert Zemeckis who was a consummate craftsman of pop entertainment, that the flickers we see here of…

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Review of The Martian (2015)

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

At its core, it's a survival epic in which the hero is the scientific method: developing testable theories, gathering the data, refining the…

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Review of Sleeping with Other People (2015)

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

It's hard to shake the notion that Leslye Headland wants soooo badly to make the 21st-century version of When Harry Met Sally..., but there's…

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