Baker’s film is a heartfelt rush to the head that extends across racial, sexual, gender and social boundaries.

| Aug 1, 2023

Their bond is largely what transforms another depressing Christmas in LA into a riotous adventure, even as it includes brothels, infidelity, meth, and kidnapping.

| Jun 21, 2023

Tangerine unostentatiously celebrates fluidity, community, support and is generally quite hearteningly right-on...

| Jan 23, 2023

From a technical standard point, Tangerine is a marvel. Baker’s filmmaking style pioneered modern indie film-making.

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

Who knows what people are struggling through and how messy those struggles may be, but we all need some generosity and friendship to make it through.

| Dec 5, 2022

... An ode to the friendship between two girls who live on the fringe in the West coast. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2022

That everything happens on Christmas Eve adds irony and political incorrectness to this comedy that functions as a diverging and mutating love story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2022

The film conveys a crushing veracity thanks to the spontaneity of a non-professional cast and the pulse of the cinematography... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 10, 2022

Only two kinds of people, hypocrites or narcissists. You are the one you can admit to. Take your pick.

| Original Score: A+ | Jan 13, 2022

Essentially, Sin-Dee and Alexandra are the elaborate cherries sitting on top of a very well-crafted but familiar cake. And who doesn't love a new spin on a familiar classic?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2021

I enjoyed it... But the way it's set up, how it's shot, the progression of the plot - it's clear that it is offering up the story to a mostly white, bougie audience. It was voyeuristic in the worst possible way.

| Aug 13, 2021

Most of the movie's slow-burning heat comes from Mya Taylor's amazingly deep and deliberate - and often uproariously comedic - performance as Alexandra

| Aug 13, 2021

Sean Baker's breakout hit is ostensibly upbeat, awash with lurid colours whose brightness obscures the seedy underworld he is unmasking.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

Shot using iPhones instead of cameras, this low-budget chase film has a touching message.

| Apr 22, 2021

Ragged and raw, yet it's also intimate and mesmerizing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 25, 2020

By turns exhilarating, moving and laugh-out-loud funny, this is a thoroughly entertaining, expertly made indie that's unlike anything else you've seen all year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2020

Adapted from a script by the director Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch, Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Mya Taylor) are best friends and their snappy dialogue and witty banter keep the pace moving along at a rapid-fire, motor mouth speed.

| Sep 15, 2019

Tangerine is a film that does LA and some of its residents justice through moments of sadness and laughter.

| Aug 6, 2019

If there is a form to cinema, Tangerine is proof it can be broken, it can be changed and it can evolve.

| Jun 30, 2019

It's not that Tangerine is a bad film (read this rating as more of a recommendation with some reservations); it's funny, energetic and cements Baker as a vital force in American independent cinema.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jun 3, 2019