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!
Tropic Sprockets: They Shot the Piano Player
This film focuses on the life of Tenório Junior, an ambitious and somewhat eccentric piano player on the Bossa Nova music scene in Brazil. Tragically, at the age of 34. Tenório disappeared, and most say he was arrested and then killed for political reasons, either by mistake or on purpose.
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Tropic Sprockets: One Life
“One Life” is a vivid primer on Nicholas Winton and his great achievement and boundless courage in saving a stupefying number of lives. One self-deprecating chuckle coupled with a glint in Hopkins’ eye contains all that is necessary to underscore the man known as Nicholas Winton, MBE.
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Front Row at the Movies: Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
In “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise,” we see the singer at the end of her 60-year career. She takes a “deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large, history-making life, and the personal struggles she’s kept private.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Teachers Lounge
Director İlker Çatak has a riveting thriller in “The Teacher’s Lounge.” With apprehensive claustrophobic tones reminiscent of “Notes on a Scandal,” this film presents a teacher caught in a sequence of moral dilemmas that snowball into absolute panic.
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Front Row at the Movies: Writers on Bicycles: Literary Key West
In 2012, Carey and Jane Winfrey began videotaping more than 30 Key West writers about what has made this island community such a literary magnet. Their documentary is titled “Writers on Bicycles: Literary Key West.”
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Front Row at the Movies: One Sings, The Other Doesn’t
“What Varda’s doing, in a sneaky way, is making her case for feminism in a lyric voice instead of a preachy one.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Four Daughters
“Four Daughters” is a labyrinthine documentary centering on a mother Olfa and her four children. Two of them, Ghofrane and Rhama, joined a Jihadist terror group. The film is a blend of actual fact and fiction, interwoven so seamlessly that one is never sure which is which. One thing is certain: this family has demons.
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Tropic Sprockets: Io Capitano
It is a jarring and intense experience that is almost unrelenting and very unsettling. Nevertheless, the movie, one of this year’s Oscar nominees for best International Film, is excellent.
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Front Row at the Movies: A New Leaf
One recent moviegoer observed, “Every now and then you stumble across a film that has been forgotten, or just ignored, and for the life of you, you can’t figure out why. ‘A New Leaf’ is such a film. Seeing this wonderful comedy for the first time was the movie-watching equivalent of discovering buried treasure.”
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Front Row at the Movies: 96th Academy Award Predictions
On March 10, Tropic Cinema will close off Eaton Street, roll out the red carpet, and host a big Oscar party – watching the award presentations live on a big screen. Gwen Filosa will act as local mistress of ceremonies. Cocktails and food will be served. Oscar ballets are available for your entertainment (can you beat me?).
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