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: Inside
“Inside“ – is it a film about an art thief, or is it Art Appreciation 101 with tough love?
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Front Row at the Movies: The Blue Caftan
The film begins as a love letter to the traditional hand-sewn tailoring that Halim learned from his father—and turns into a delicate telling of a simmering love triangle.
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Tropic Sprockets: One Fine Morning
Immersive and engaging with notes of apprehension, this smartly handled romantic drama in the tradition of the French cinema of the 70s would make Claire Denis proud.
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Front Row at the Movies: The Trouble With Angels
“We hope to hear lively discussion as people come out of the Tropic,” says NOW’s Andrea Henley Heyn, “because we want to show films that highlight interesting topics, interesting points of view, not your usual Hollywood fare… well, sometimes it might be your great Hollywood fare, but by women like Ida Lupino.”
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Tropic Sprockets: Women Talking
Director Sarah Polley adapts a tense and insular film based on the novel by Miriam Toews. Told mostly in a series of monologues and verbal questionnaires, the story is anxious, moody, and pensive by turns.
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Front Row at the Movies: 95th Academy Awards Predictions
I’ll jump the gun and give you my predictions. It’s kinda expected of film critics. The idea is that we have great insights. But let me warn you, forecasting Oscar winners is like reading tea leaves or consulting the Oracle of Delphi.
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Tropic Sprockets: Message to Love – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970
This is one of the most vivid and evocative concert films that you are likely to see. “Message of Love” is a play-by-play record of time and an illustration of battle between hippies and bureaucrat executives, a civil war that still continues today, albeit in lessening degrees.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Inspection
With delicate emotive detail combined with surreal happenstance, "The Inspection" creates a record of military life that is unflinching and without compromise.
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Front Row at the Movies: Close
Director Lukas Dhont describes “Close” as a study of friendship and the expectations of masculinity placed on boys.
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Tropic Sprockets: Close
This rich illustration of a teen friendship is emotive, direct and deliberate. It unfolds across the eye as an epic in miniature. Piercing with feeling, it is unflinchingly honest and doesn’t pull any punches.
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