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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: Whiplash
Director Damien Chazelle has given us a spellbinding quasi-autobiography with “Whiplash,” zeroing in on a young music student with heart, intensity and a squeamish sense of detail.
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Front Row at the Movies: Whiplash
“Whiplash” ranked 13 on Empire’s list of “The 100 Greatest Movies of the 21st Century.” And Screenrant picked it as the Highest-Rated Music Film of All Time. Let’s hear a drum roll for J.K. Simmons.
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Tropic Sprockets: Close Your Eyes
While it might intimidate some viewers by its three-hour running time, it is nonetheless rich and immersive as a comprehensive meditation on memory and friendship.
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Front Row at the Movies: Close Your Eyes
Victor Erice calls “Close Your Eyes” a very personal experience. Perhaps he’s trying to explain his own disappearance from filmmaking for 31 years.
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Tropic Sprockets: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Tim Burton has fashioned a melancholic but surrealistic sensibility, employing elements from Charles Addams, Edgar Allan Poe, and Steven Spielberg with a bit of Dr. Seuss.
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Front Row at the Movies: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
In this new romp, also directed by Tim Burton, we encounter the Deetz family more than three decades later, returning to the home that Beetlejuice had chased them out of.
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Tropic Sprockets: Slingshot
"Slingshot" is a puzzle of a film. Unfortunately, the film’s endless twists and turns tires the audience’s logic to an extreme degree as to become nonsensical.
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Front Row at the Movies: East of Eden
Despite only appearing in a trio of films, the “cultural rebel status of James Dean is just as strong in the 21st century as it was at the height of his popularity in the 1950s.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Between the Temples
“Between the Temples” is an amiable affectionate film in the mode of Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach. The film has a nostalgic feel that echoes the films of the 1970s. It is authentic, warm, and engaging.
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Front Row at the Movies: Widow Clicquot
“Widow Clicquot” is the kind of film to make you want to follow it up by going across the street to sip a flute of rosé champagne with a fellow moviegoer.
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