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: Amanda
Quirk is in force here. In tone, the film is a bit like “Amelie” mixed with “The Graduate.” We may not know much about Amanda but there is enough revealed to know that Amanda’s feelings are a serious matter.
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Tropic Sprockets: Two Tickets to Greece
“Two Tickets to Greece” is entertaining, breezy, and more genuinely comic than “Absolutely Fabulous” or “Book Club.” This is a real portrait of friendship with traces of its inherent push and pull.
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Front Row at the Movies: Equal Means Equal
Written and directed by Kamala Lopez and produced by Patricia Arquette, the 2016 documentary exposes the inequality women face when it comes to pay inequity, sexual harassment and domestic violence in the workplace and at home, poverty, the sex trade, and the erosion of reproductive rights.
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Tropic Sprockets: Equal Means Equal
In celebration of women receiving the right to vote on August 18, 1920, the Key West chapter of NOW is showing “Equal Means Equal” by director Kamala Lopez—a pointed and thorough documentary on the deliberate subjugation of women in American society that is enforced to this day.
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Tropic Sprockets: Shortcomings
Actor Randall Park (TV’s "Fresh Off the Boat") makes a directorial debut in “Shortcomings,” based on a graphic novel by Adrian Tomine. The film is engrossing, pensive and affecting, bolstered with two near perfect performances by Justin H. Min and Sherry Cola.
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Tropic Sprockets: Talk to Me
The Philippou Brothers strike eerie territory with an effective horror debut in “Talk to Me.” The film is a kind of “Candyman” tale, genuinely creepy with jarring moments, and is greatly boosted by a solid performance by Sophie Wilde.
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Tropic Sprockets: Little Richard: I Am Everything
Above all and central to Little Richard is the spirit of love and free expression. This film represents those qualities and gives them full importance.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Graduate
Poignant and engrossing with bold cinematography, “The Graduate” is a stirring coming-of-age story that is wonderfully direct and uncynical. Even though it is created from another time 58 years ago, refreshingly, it holds its own.
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Tropic Sprockets: Barbie
“Barbie” is an entertaining and visual tour de force that works both as a popcorn movie and an art film. Warm and engaging with an affectionate heart, the film resonates with social commentary, but it is also pure fun.
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Front Row at the Movies: Despicable Me
Steve Carell steals the show, and provides the movie’s moral: There’s some good even in bad people.
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