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: 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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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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