Sean P. Means has been a reporter, editor and critic at The Salt Lake Tribune since 1991. For 25 years, from 1993 to 2018, he was that paper's full-time movie critic, writing thousands of reviews, interviewing the occasional celebrity, and covering the Sundance Film Festival. In 2020 and 2021, Means had a broad portfolio: arts and culture reporter, assistant news editor, and a member of the Tribune’s team covering the COVID-19 pandemic — a subject that crosses into every subject under the sun.
In 2022, Means took on a new role: Culture editor, overseeing The Tribune’s coverage of arts, food, entertainment and culture. In 2023, that job’s title and duties expanded — culture & business editor.
Means can be heard reviewing movies every Friday at 7 a.m. Mountain time on the "Radio From Hell" show on Salt Lake City's KXRK 96.3 FM, known to locals as X96.
Means also does the social media thing: X (fka Twitter), Threads, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram and Letterboxd.
Means and his wife, Leslie, have two sons and a not particularly bright cat, Gracie. (Our older cat, Angel, pictured below, died in 2023.)
Top photo by Scott Sommerdorf; bottom photo by Leslie Means.