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Tropic Sprockets: Eternity
In a throwback to the 1990s, “Eternity” is a sweet rom-com with a few touches of dark humor—breezy, colorful, easy on the eyes and a smidge too digestible.
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Tropic Sprockets: Sentimental Value
We are in stricken Scandinavian terrain well travelled by Bergman, but director Joachim Trier ("The Worst Person in the World") keeps the charge going with a swift camera, mystery, suspense and the adhesion of two contrasting sisters.
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Tropic Sprockets: Peter Hujar’s Day
This film is an eerie time capsule. Through both the gentle welcome of Hujar’s face and his confused weariness, one conjures Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol and Factory People: a lost time when chattering silver giants ruled the earth.
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Tropic Sprockets: It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi, who has himself been sent to prison for his art, directs this visceral study on the nature of revenge, which packs a punch and never lets go. Impactful and gripping, it is chock full of good performances and is 100% authentic.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Running Man
Even though this version of the Stephen King novel could have used more charge and pathos, Glen Powell has enough matinee star power to hold it all together.
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Tropic Sprockets: Train Dreams
“Train Dreams,” an adaptation of the Denis Johnson novel of the same name, is somber and understated, its visual style and rhythm underscoring the neutrality of the natural world that refuses to bend under humankind.
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Tropic Sprockets: Bugonia
Yorgos Lanthimos's showstopper of a film, based on the Korean “Save the Green Planet!”, is reflective, provoking, unsettling and will certainly keep you guessing.
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Tropic Sprockets: Blue Moon
Lorenz Hart was half of the groundbreaking songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart, responsible for some 500 Broadway songs. Director Richard Linklater and star Ethan Hawke bring the tortured aspect of this brilliant writer to life.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Mastermind
With a slow lingering camera, the visionary of understatement Kelly Reichardt captures a snapshot in time of the average man fighting for some degree of status and notoriety within an America rife in unrest.
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Front Row at the Movies: Farewell Top 10
People are always asking film critics to name their favorite movie. That’s a bit tricky. So, as I retire my weekly "Front Row at the Movies" column, I thought I’d leave you readers with a list of my Top 10 personal movie favorites.
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