Movie Reviews & News
Get the latest news about what's going on at the Tropic, plus movie reviews from our in-house critics, Shirrel Rhoades and Ian Brockway. You’ll also find reviews from film festivals and advance screening movies. Want to make sure you never miss a thing? Follow the Tropic on Facebook for daily updates!
Front Row at the Movies: Wicked Little Letters
Based on an actual event that occurred in the 1920s, the film is directed by Thea Sharrock and written by Jonny Sweet. It’s billed as a black comedy, but if you were one of the participants you might not be laughing.
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Tropic Sprockets: Wicked Little Letters
The effect of this history on film is more Benny Hill than Oscar Wilde with the straitlaced prim and proper town getting flummoxed and flustered by the “filthy” language, with perspiring and tomato-faced barristers.
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Front Row at the Movies: Knox Goes Away
As one moviegoer observed, this is a “clever and surprisingly funny film that invites us to reflect on the fragility of memory and those we have personally lost, before their time, to dementia and similar conditions.” Yet it’s a tense and suspenseful thriller. And it has a satisfying twist.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Adventures of Robin Hood
This was the third film to pair Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (after “Captain Blood” and “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” They would ultimately star in nine films together. Olivia said of Errol Flynn: “Errol was a proud, sensitive man, and though every bit as adventurous as his screen roles, I think he was rather more complex than these.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Knox Goes Away
Actor Michael Keaton scores in the director’s chair in “Knox Goes Away,” a tense and knotty thriller. This is a film where nothing is as it appears in a very genuine and sincere way, and the audience is ensnared from the start.
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Tropic Sprockets: Problemista
Comedian Julio Torres delivers a freewheeling madcap debut with touches of Monty Python, Terry Gilliam, and the Coen Brothers with “Problemista.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Love Lies Bleeding
Glass’s first film “Saint Maud” compelled the audience with religion and possession. Now, the director strikes again with her take on love, co-dependency, and competitive bodybuilding.
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Front Row at the Movies: Nickelback: Hate to Love
As for me, Nickelback, I can take them or leave them.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Boys in the Boat
The film is handsomely produced with gold tones to its cinematography by Martin Ruhe that recalls old Hollywood. Though it is conventional and does not break new ground, it is breezy, heartfelt, and pleasant.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Fugitive Kind
Tennessee Williams was a hometown boy, living in Key West longer than any other place. The series of films showing at Tropic Cinema to celebrate Williams's birthday includes “The Fugitive Kind” (1960), starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, and Joanne Woodward. It’s based on Williams’ 1957 play “Orpheus Descending.”
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