Baker’s brave and bracing film is far from a whimsical fable. It is a dramatic thumbnail depiction of a growing section of this nation’s culture that many may not want to admit exists, let alone condone.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 13, 2024

Baker's vision for The Florida Project is brilliant in concept and even more vital in execution. The ending to this film is easily some of the best filmmaking of 2017.

| Aug 8, 2024

Its potent combination of empathy, observation and miraculously natural performances make this a modern classic, with strong echoes of Ken Loach's very best work.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Coupled with Alexis Zabe’s vividly ironic cinematography, and a supporting performance by Willem Dafoe as perhaps a failed parent in his own way, and The Florida Project is nothing short of authentic perfection...

| Jul 2, 2024

It’s superficially less bleak than Tangerine, rendered by Baker in tropical colours, but poverty lurks throughout.

| Jul 29, 2022

The charm, wrenching emotion, and compassion that Baker finds in his characters are enhanced by his unique touches of humor and unlikely optimism.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 17, 2022

The Florida Project is a rainbow in a rainstorm illuminating the nuances of life that consume us all, no matter where we live, how much money we make, what our social status is, how we choose to spend our time and who we spend it with.

| Feb 11, 2022

Baker clearly loves every single person he puts inside his camera and feeds off their nasty wise humor of the doomed... The Florida Project is deeply honest

| Jan 14, 2022

The folks in these stories might be poor, desperate and often completely out of their minds, but there is a curious species of warmth, compassion and even honour in their worlds.

| Dec 29, 2021

The best picture of 2017, with Willem Dafoe delivering the performance of the year.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 22, 2021

This movie really challenged me to look at my own compassion.

| Aug 13, 2021

It's a story about poverty that neither celebrates or condemns its characters. Mooney's exploits are entertaining and yet an air of jeopardy hangs heavy over every minute of the movie.

| Original Score: 4.5 | Mar 1, 2021

With a deeply moving emotional current, The Florida Project fictionally portrays a growing marginalized section of the American population.

| Feb 21, 2021

The Florida Project manages to surpass Tangerine by displaying an even broader social frieze. And all the characters, even the most insignificant, have their two or three seconds of dignity [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jan 9, 2021

Fizzing with vitality, brimful of empathy and insight.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 20, 2020

It's not attempting to push a narrative as much as it aims to highlight a subsection of society that rarely makes its way onto the big screen.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 5, 2020

It follows not only their adorable adventures during summer break but also the hardships of poverty in modern America.

| Oct 27, 2020

One of 2017's most outstanding cinematic achievements.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

[S]ome of the most heartbreaking, affirming filmmaking in recent memory, the kind only achieved by a director with the utmost sympathy for their characters.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

As Hally digs herself a hole time and time again, and as the inevitable finally catches up with her and her daughter, we deeply feel for Moonie and her well-being.

| Jul 17, 2020