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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!
Front Row at the Movies: The Fabulous Four
“Bridesmaids,” it’s not. But you’ll still get some good guffaws out of “The Fabulous Four,” a new comedy about friends traveling to Key West to be bridesmaids for their long-time friend’s wedding.
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Tropic Sprockets: Revival69: The Concert that Rocked The World
Ron Chapman’s lively documentary “Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World” is vibrant, colorful, and chock full of rock history anecdotes.
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Tropic Sprockets: Twisters
"Twisters" is big on action and hair-raising stunts but does not quite have the sense of surprise like the original. Nevertheless, it has a good cast, and actor Glen Powell does have matinee charisma and holds the film together.
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Front Row at the Movies: Twisters
Storm chaser Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos) set out to test a revolutionary new tornado tracking system on the plains of Oklahoma. There, they bump heads with Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), a social media star known as “The “Tornado Wrangler.” But this competition has to be set aside when they find themselves caught in the path of multiple tornados.
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Tropic Sprockets: Kinds of Kindness
Surrealist maestro Yorgos Lanthimos can be depended on for daring themes and images. Like Jean-Luc Godard, he should be well applauded in this age of franchises and Blockbuster banquets, but his stories are not easy on the eyes.
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Front Row at the Movies: Fly Me to the Moon
Suppose you took two older movies – say, “Capricorn One,” a fanciful film suggesting that the moon landing was faked, and “Wag the Dog,” a film about using Hollywood to fake a war – and turned them into a rom-com starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum?
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Tropic Sprockets: Last Summer
Catherine Breillat is known for pushing the envelope, and she does so here in “Last Summer,” a remake of the 2019 Danish film “Queen of Hearts” and an engrossing objective analysis of an incestuous situation between stepmother and stepson. The matter-of-fact dispassionate tone is certain to challenge assumptions.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Bikeriders
That being said, the action is brisk, and the acting is solid. While the cliches are in place, full of punches, squared shoulders, and sulking speech, the film is testament to how potent yet also how dated and very unreal the concept of the reckless and bruising male remains.
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Front Row at the Movies: MaXXXine
Director Ti West continues his homage to horror films with “MaXXXine,” the third installment in his “X” film series. This is a direct sequel to “X” (2022) and a compliment to its prequel “Pearl” (2022). All three have starred Mia Goth, who seems to be Ti’s muse.
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Tropic Sprockets: MaXXXine
The sheer volume of film references combined with the iconic sight of Mia Goth, who recalls Nancy Allen from Brian De Palma fame, makes this film a sight, but its impersonal spaced-out tone, feels distant and lacks charge.
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