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: Cabrini
The Sons and Daughters of Italy present “Cabrini” this Saturday evening at Tropic Cinema. Being that this marks International Women’s Day, the first 40 women who attend will receive a yellow mum (compliments of Love in Bloom).
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Tropic Sprockets: No Other Land
From Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Basel Adra and Rachel Szor, comes the jarring and affecting documentary, “No Other Land.” This film is very difficult and upsetting, but surely earns its Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
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Tropic Sprockets: Riff Raff
The film is in the spirit of a Coen Brothers thriller but it doesn’t possess quite the same magnetism or charge of its original cousin.
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Tropic Sprockets: Presence
Modern master Steven Soderbergh's take on the haunted house is odd, offbeat, and intriguing. While it is not scary at all in the conventional sense, it remains a compelling character study of a troubled and arrogant American family.
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Front Row at the Movies: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” – playing at the Tropic Cinema next week – is the first film being screened as a part of the Tennessee Williams Birthday Celebration. Movie versions of “The Rose Tattoo” and “Sweet Bird of Youth” also will follow during the month.
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Tropic Sprockets: All We Imagine As Light
In slow progression with heart and pensive rhythm, “All We Imagine as Light” is one of the most delicate and fully rendered films so far this year.
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Tropic Sprockets: 2025 Oscar-Nominated Shorts – Animation
The animator can defy the usual script laws of exposition, time or setting. This year is no exception. The only marked departure in 2025 is that this selection is remarkably serious and matter of fact with only a few chuckles and adorable sights.
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Front Row at the Movies: Selma and the KW NOW Film Festival
“We’ve made a bridge between Black History Month and Women’s History Month,” says Andrea Henley Heyn, Coordinator of the Film Festival. “This year, the bridge (ahem!) is Ava DuVernay’s 2014 historical fiction, ‘Selma,’ about the Civil Rights struggles in Alabama.”
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Tropic Sprockets: 2025 Oscar-Nominated Shorts – Documentary
In keeping with tradition, this category once again contains a somber group of films. On the plus side, they are all fine and detailed studies of the human condition. Each film travels the world revealing great existential struggle but also a great resilience of the spirit.
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Tropic Sprockets: 2025 Oscar-Nominated Shorts – Live Action
This year’s group is a kaleidoscopic and diverse selection running the gambit of tension and pathos. A decidedly downbeat crop, they are a reflection of our current turbulent condition and create a necessary call to awareness.
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