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Friday, March 16, 2018

Movie Reviews: Tomb Raider, Love Simon, 7 Days in Entebbe

The Party, A Ciambra

Posted By on March 16, 2018, 8:51 AM

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A video-game heroine gets a blockbuster reboot, while a coming-out-of-age teen comedy  and historical drama add to a busy week at multiplexes.

Love, Simon shows that a contemporary gay teen romance can be  more about comedy than angst. A well-meaning effort at both-sides-ing a pivotal Palestinian/Israeli conflict gets bogged down in rote procedural in 7 Days in Entebbe. The simple cultural anthropology of A Ciambra eventually reveals a morality tale about growing up in poverty.

MaryAnn Johanson finds the atypical female action heroics of Tomb Raider (pictured) getting lost in ersatz Indiana Jones without any of the spark. A stellar cast elevates the satire of upper-class left-wing Londoners in Sally Potter's The Party.

Also opening this week, but not screened for press: the true story behind a faith-based hit song in I Can Only Imagine.

In this week's feature, a documentary filmmaker comes back home to find a Utah artist—and an old friend—as the subject for his feature Logan's Syndrome.

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Scott Renshaw

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Scott Renshaw has been a City Weekly staff member since 1999, including assuming the role of primary film critic in 2001 and Arts & Entertainment Editor in 2003. Scott has covered the Sundance Film Festival for 25 years, and provided coverage of local arts including theater, pop-culture conventions, comedy, literature,... more

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