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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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Review of Vacation (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 30 Jul 2015

Vacation in general tries to do that thing so many 21st-century raunch-comedies do, where filmmakers try to balance the gross-outs with the…

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Review of The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 30 Jul 2015

A laser focus on the titular, infamous 1971 incident keeps this dark drama intriguing even when it gets too obvious in its nudges at 21st-century…

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Review of Vacation (2013)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 30 Jul 2015

Vacation in general tries to do that thing so many 21st-century raunch-comedies do, where filmmakers try to balance the gross-outs with the…

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Review of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 30 Jul 2015

Like the James Bond films, the entries in the Mission: Impossible series are really only as good as the sum of their set pieces -- and they…

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Review of Pixels (2010)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 23 Jul 2015

Mostly this is a messy attempt to make a movie for 10-year-olds built entirely on Gen X nostalgia, requiring expository descriptions of every…

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Review of Southpaw (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 23 Jul 2015

Gyllenhaal, though, finds yet another reservoir of intensity for a tricky role, much as he did for last year's Nightcrawler…

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Review of Paper Towns (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 23 Jul 2015

It's refreshing to find a funny, frisky teen narrative that makes the simple pleasures of friendship as profound as True Love…

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Review of Pixels (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 23 Jul 2015

Mostly this is a messy attempt to make a movie for 10-year-olds built entirely on Gen X nostalgia, requiring expository descriptions of every…

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Review of Cartel Land (2015)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 23 Jul 2015

[Heineman] needed either to find a compelling reason to keep the American vigilantes in this film, or keep the focus entirely on the genuinely…

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Review of Aloft (2014)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 23 Jul 2015

A story that's meant to be about profoundly heartbreaking life moments somehow winds up feeling purely theoretical…

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Review of Inception (2010)

By Scott Renshaw (514) for Salt Lake City Weekly (200) on 19 Jul 2015

The result is something almost as thrilling to contemplate as it is to watch…

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