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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!
Tropic Sprockets: 2026 Oscar Shorts – Animated and Documentary
Each animated short artist has been dependable in giving imagination free reign, unconcerned by the limits of reality and our earthly restrictions. The documentary short category is invariably emotional, visceral, punchy, and often unrelenting.
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Tropic Sprockets: Sirāt
One part “The Treasure of Sierra Madre,", a bit of William Friedkin’s "Sorcerer” as well as George Miller ala Mad Max, this film is impactful, explosive, jarring, jittery and all emotional.
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Tropic Sprockets: Come See Me in the Good Light
This film is as fluid and clear as the poet’s verse and as a creative product it makes a fitting light box for the legacy that is Andrea Gibson.
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Tropic Sprockets: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
In a madcap turn, Gore Verbinski ("Pirates of the Caribbean") directs “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.” Though the film is a bit too silly and overly long, it is creative and has an excellent performance by Sam Rockwell in one of his best roles yet.
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Tropic Sprockets: 2026 Key West Women’s Film Festival
It is time again to celebrate fierce, inventive, and resilient women in all of their combinations with this year’s Women’s Film Fest at the Tropic, every Wednesday in March.
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Tropic Sprockets: 2026 Oscar Shorts – Live Action
The Live Action category can always be depended on to be especially compelling and diverse, and this selection is brisk and thoughtful, offering something for everyone, even including the Surrealists among us, as scarce and reclusive as we might be.
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Tropic Sprockets: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
Odd and obscure but not cringy and irrepressibly feel good, the monotone humor will not be for everyone, yet for those with an eccentric bent who want for something more offbeat than “Wayne’s World” this is your trip.
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Tropic Sprockets: “Wuthering Heights”
Gothicism is pushed to the fore in the esoteric maestro Emerald Fennel’s ("Saltburn") version of the frequently filmed "Wuthering Heights" from Emily Bronte.
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Tropic Sprockets: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
In “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” by David Borenstein ("Dream Empire"), young teacher Pavel Talankin documents the transformation of his school from a somewhat progressive education center to a military recruitment hub.
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Tropic Sprockets: The Voice of Hind Rajab
Kaouther Ben Hania ("Four Daughters") directs the masterful but very infuriating docudrama “The Voice of Hind Rajab.” The film is painstaking in its accuracy, compact and emotive. The film hits the eye like a cinematic bullet, a visual exclamation point.
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