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

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

I want to see these two actresses in other, better films--even if it's just to erase Tangerine out of my head. They deserve better.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 1, 2017

[Tangerine] is spinning a tale of friendship and solidarity in the most unforgiving circumstances.

| Aug 15, 2017

At its core, this is a hilarious movie; it just happens to star two transgender women as the lead. That alone is worthy of note.

| Feb 23, 2017

As a formal exercise... Tangerine is nothing short of remarkable; as a portrait of people doing their best to be their best selves, it's as warm and vivid as the sunsets splashed across its narrow but expansive digital canvas.

| Dec 7, 2015

Fired by zesty performances that crackle and burn with energy, Tangerine is a bittersweet affair underpinned by a winning sense of empathy and affection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2015

Tangerine is a bit of a marvel, a low-budget film reportedly shot entirely on the iPhone 5 but one which combines extraordinary visual inventiveness, humour and pathos.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2015

Tangerine acknowledges that these are hard lives to lead, but the film ultimately stands as a celebration of the characters' mad resolve.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2015

Tangerine takes you by the scruff of your neck into a parallel world where tattered reality is shot through with neon flashes of colour, clarity and pure emotional honesty.

| Nov 12, 2015

It's a long way from Pretty Woman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2015

There is so much vitality and pizzazz, it seems almost by the by to point out that the whole film was shot on an iPhone.

| Nov 12, 2015

It may be known as The Movie Shot On An iPhone 5, but Sean Baker's hymn to the spirit of the streets has so much more going for it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2015

It radiates a candour, immediacy and tongue-scalding sex appeal that a bigger budget would have only smothered.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 12, 2015

This is a one-crazy-night picture, a little like Alex Holdridge's LA indie pic In Search of a Midnight Kiss, from 2007. There's real energy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2015

A dazzling bauble of melodrama and fast paced merriment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2015

Raucously entertaining.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 10, 2015

Told with simplicity but deep empathy, Baker's film sports a refreshingly sober, grown-up worldview that refuses to judge, sensationalize, or do anything other than show lives as they may be, and perhaps are.

| Aug 14, 2015

"Tangerine" has generated interest partly because it was made using iPhones augmented by other devices. But technology can only take a film so far - it's the story that really matters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2015