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: The Last Showgirl
Pamela Anderson's haunt and gravity carry Gia Coppola's authentic portrait of Las Vegas life with existential angst, “The Last Showgirl.”
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Front Row at the Movies: Better Man
Although you may recognize Robbie Williams from such hits as “Millennium” and “She’s the One,” you might not know that in 2004 he was voted the Greatest Artist of the 1990s. While telling Williams’s life story, “Better Man” portrays him as a CG-animated anthropomorphic chimpanzee—an expression of his inner feeling of being “less evolved than other people.”
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Tropic Sprockets: The World According to Garp
Strange, immersive, and concussive, one is never sure how this film will land. The poignance is laced with menace and danger. Spielbergian nostalgia turns into the darkness of Highsmith, but the source material is absolutely John Irving from his acclaimed novel.
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Front Row at the Movies: The World According to Garp
“The World According to Garp” is a 1982 dramedy based on the 1978 novel by John Irving that introduces us to T. S. Garp, born out of wedlock to a feminist leader, who grows up to becomes a writer. A story about gender politics, it explores the themes of family, love, and the unpredictability of life.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Girl With the Needle
Swedish-Polish director-writer Magnus von Horn describes his film “Pigen med nålen” (translation: “The Girl with the Needle”) as a “fairy tale for grownups.” Fairy tale or not, the film takes you on a dark and difficult, yet unforgettable, journey.
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Tropic Sprockets: A Complete Unknown
Though the film is breezy, it is solid in portraying young Dylan as a transmitter of great energy, only to become a solitary spaceman in pursuit of his next message.
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Tropic Sprockets: Nosferatu
This Orlock is more hyperlink Sturm und Drang than the rhythm of Wagner and pale poetics, but each Orlock carries its own era like a coffin along with him.
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Front Row at the Movies: A Complete Unknown
At last report Bob Dylan hadn’t seen “A Complete Unknown.” Nonetheless, he endorsed the film and Timothée Chalamet, saying, “I’m sure he’s going to be completely believable as me. Or a younger version of me. Or some other me.” He is.
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Front Row at the Movies: Nosferatu
"To probe the dark within us in a real way, to go back to those childhood instincts with a more adult approach, that’s my intention," says director Robert Eggers.
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Tropic Sprockets: Oh, Canada
This is routine fare for the famed director, but his legacy is immutable and a new film by Paul Schrader is forever cause for celebration.
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