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: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
In director Kogonada's fantasy romance, Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell play Sarah and David, two strangers who relive important moments from their pasts that help them understand how they got to where they are in the present.
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Tropic Sprockets: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Audiences know well what to expect. Crystal clear cinematography, beautiful clothes of the 30s and witty repartee. Nostalgia and memory is the order of the day and the film possesses heaps of charm.
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Front Row at the Movies: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
It makes me want to go back and rewatch the TV series from Episode 1 to 56, plus the Christmas specials—this is a snapshot of history that is sure to hook all Anglophiles.
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Tropic Sprockets: Spinal Tap II
The humor is madcap and silly and all the more effective because the cast plays it straight with reverence and heart, as if the band is a prime mover on the pulse of pop culture. The energy is genuine, and the time-honored jokes never feel stale.
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Tropic Sprockets: Splitsville
Michael Angelo Covino ("The Climb") scores a direct hit in “Splitsville.” It's a throwback to the naturalistic comedies of the 1970s such as Woody Allen or Mike Nichols but the high voltage absurdity has a rhythm all its own.
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Front Row at the Movies: Highest 2 Lowest
Writer Evan Hunter (known for his “87th Precinct” police procedural novels under the pen name of Ed McBain) had his novel “King’s Ransom” made into a movie by Japanese maestro Akira Kurosawa. Now, Kurosawa’s 1963 classic (called “High and Low”) has been remade by Spike Lee.
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Tropic Sprockets: East of Wall
Minimalist in approach yet heartfelt and impactful, this film is an authentic slice of life -- living on a ranch in South Dakota.
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Front Row at the Movies: East of Wall
Where is the line between reality and fiction? One has to ask, is “East of Wall” a scripted drama or a staged documentary? First-time feature filmmaker Kate Beecroft knows the difference. In the film, her subjects are playing heightened versions of themselves.
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Tropic Sprockets: Caught Stealing
Darren Aronofsky's new film is a kind of homage to the madcap New York films of the 1980s such as Martin Scorsese’s vivid “After Hours” (1985). This 21st-century incarnation is spirited and zany, thoughtful and infinitely apprehensive.
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Front Row at the Movies: Caught Stealing
Writer Charlie Huston’s character Henry “Hank” Thompson is a lovable, baseball-crazy anti-hero who struggles with “mistaken identity, his past, and … a new life for himself.” With Huston’s screenplay, “Caught Stealing” is now a movie produced and directed by Darren Aronofsky
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