...Red Rocket isn't the director's best, but it does help us understand where Sean Baker is coming from. And also, where he's going.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2025

It benefits from a solid performance by Simon Rex, but its narrative often remains stuck in a routine that weighs down its discourse on sexual exploitation and opportunism as a parable of the failures of the American dream. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 19, 2024

Baker offers a subtle but penetrating critique of the decline of American ideals, showing a fractured country where the promises of success and prosperity feel increasingly unattainable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 10, 2024

The film is at its best, though, when it is trying to connect Mikey to any larger American ailment or masculinity but simply allows Mikey to be his mercenary conman self...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2024

Baker's appreciation for even the smallest roles is a chief delight of Red Rocket.

| Nov 8, 2023

Director Sean Baker, whose credits include “Tangerine” (2015) and “The Florida Project” (2017), pins together another poignant portrait of class, race and gender at the margins of society without relying on poverty tropes

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 16, 2023

That was a damn pleasure

| Jul 26, 2023

What you get is the high-standard character study that Sean Baker has always succeeded in bringing with unusual people in common struggles from daily life.

| Original Score: A | Feb 21, 2023

Sean Baker's social cinema reaches an interesting turn with this feature, where the form becomes more authorial, making Red Rocket one of the most surprising films of the year. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 13, 2022

It would be different if the film had something meaningful to say or to tackle. Instead it burrows deeper into the muck, seemingly enjoying itself, hiding behind the veil of “art”, and giving us nothing of value to chew on.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Baker allows you to form your own impressions on the comment he is making with this.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2022

It might sound crazy, but it ain't no lie: Red Rocket's *NSYNC needle drops, the cost of which likely almost eclipsed the rest of the film's budget, provide a sensational mix of movie music moments in an all-round sensational picture.

| Jun 25, 2022

Baker has crafted another masterpiece full of searing highs, black humour and comical hijinks, with a lot to say about the modern world and politics.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 10, 2022

Without falling into gratuitous sordidness, Baker reveals sprouts of life that grow from that pop garbage of his films, that map of places and plastic foods in which his stories and characters usually swim. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 1, 2022

Almost as if he has lived the life of Mikey throughout stretches of his career, Rex seems to know how to play this type of sleazy charmer instinctively with pleasure, charisma and manic energy.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 31, 2022

Simon Rex emerges as an essentially carnal, powerful and magnetic presence, capable of carrying the film on his shoulders with disarming ease and unfolding an enviable range of registers. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 19, 2022

For fans of clear and luminous stories of an America unjustly forgotten. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2022

Baker continues to use the camera as a scalpel... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2022

It achieves the seemingly impossible: that we empathize with someone who doesn’t deserve sympathy and are amused even when what we’re seeing isn’t quite a laughing matter. Red Rocket, Sean Baker, Simon Rex… all tremendous. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2022

Cinematic thrillseekers need to see this ASAP.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 8, 2022