Utah IMAX Movie Theaters

Jordan Commons Best
9335 State St, Sandy

Gateway District Best
400 W 200 S, Downtown, Salt Lake City

Valley Fair Mall Best
3601 S 2700 W, West Valley City, UT 84119

Of the three Megaplex IMAX screens (Jordan Commons, Valley Fair, The District), only JC’s screen has a full IMAX aspect ratio of 1.43:1. The other two are 1.80:1 (aka LieMAX aspect ratio). Some of Oppenheimer was shot in 1.43, which means the 1.80 screens would be missing about 20% of the complete picture of the 1.43 scenes. All three of the IMAX theaters use digital 2k xenon projectors, which are relatively low resolution. Unfortunately, there aren’t any 70mm or 4k laser IMAX theaters here. The Cinemark “XD” screens are equivalent scale to the Megaplex LieMAX screens.

For the best available picture quality (better than above IMAX screens), but smaller screens with cropped aspect ratio, Broadway Theater is showing in 35mm, and the Gateway Megaplex has theaters with new laser projectors with Dolby Atmos sound.

So depends on what you prefer – the largest/complete picture (JC IMAX) or better picture quality (Broadway 35mm, Gateway laser). —u/al00f_0wl, Reddit, Salt Lake City

Salt Lake Area

Broadway Centre Cinemas
Operated by Salt Lake Film Society
111 E Broadway, 300 S, Salt Lake

Sugar House Cinemark
2227 S Highland Dr, Sugar House, Salt Lake

Jordan Landing Cinemark 24 and XD
Jordan Landing, West Jordan

Draper Cinemark and XD
12129 S State St, Draper

Riverton Cinemark and XD
13257 S Teal Rdg Wy, Riverton

Thanksgiving Point Megaplex Theatre
Thanksgiving Point Lehi