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: Gladiator II
There is enough of Good Vs. Evil and yin / yang to make the soap opera handling compelling. Ridley Scott delivers the men you love to hate, which makes a satisfying matinee, albeit in the mode of a Creature Feature.
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Front Row at the Movies: Gladiator II
Yes, you’ll see lots of hand-to-hand battles in “Gladiator II,” better than a modern-day football game. Helmeted warriors clash in brutal winner-takes-all battles that leaves audiences riveted.
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Tropic Sprockets: Anora
Sean Baker turns the romantic comedy genre into a thriller and subverts expectations of the time honored coming-of age-story. "Anora" is riveting from start to finish
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Tropic Sprockets: A Real Pain
There is real gusto and electricity here contained in the being of Kieran Culkin. The actor exists in a state of likable danger and by the last frame your heart will go out to him full force with mystery and wonder.
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Tropic Sprockets: Conclave
The performances are understated and first rate. Despite some overly familiar shadowy recesses and gloomy corridors, you will feel the psychological magnetism that is contained in the gothic clamshell known as The Vatican
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Tropic Sprockets: Heretic
The endless creaking doors and loud bangs seem mere minor accessories against the weird and very real charge of Hugh Grant.
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Front Row at the Movies: Meet Bob Mackie at the Tropic
For six decades, costume designer Bob Mackie has dressed flamboyant stars like Cher, Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross, Carol Channing, Judy Garland, Madonna, and Elton John. Now Mackie is dropping by the Tropic Cinema on Monday, November 11, to host a showing of a documentary celebrating his remarkable career as couturier to the stars.
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Tropic Sprockets: Emilia Perez
Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” is a propulsive, lively, and suspenseful adventure focusing on a Mexican drug dealer who wants to transition to a woman. The film is also compelling, vibrant and emotional, and to top it off, it is filled with colorful and engaging music, because surprise, it is a musical. It entertains from start to finish.
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Tropic Sprockets: Here
It is startling that Hanks and Wright are seamlessly envisioned as young through the technology of artificial Intelligence, but the entire film cannot hang on such wizardry, however great it may be.
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Front Row at the Movies: Here
“Here” is about a place, following its inhabitants from years past into the future. This adaptation of Richard McGuire’s graphic novel is set in a single room and follows its inhabitants (including Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, reunited 30 years after "Forrest Gump") over many years.
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