Tangerine

"The making of Sean Baker's LA street drama must have been even more remarkable than the film itself. Shot on the fly, using iPhones with prototype anamorphic lenses, it features a cast of transgender women, most of them making their acting debuts. Like Coffee and Cigarettes or Smoke, but on substances a little stronger, it gives voice to the city's prostitutes, pushers and passers-by, in the process rendering their extraordinary – to us, at least – lives ordinary."

"Writer-director Sean Baker's sun-scorched, street-level snapshot is a work of rueful, matter-of-fact insight and unapologetically wild humor..."

"For all of its noise, Tangerine ends on a moment of silent compassion—the world can be a cruel place, but we have the power to remake it in our own image."

"“There is nothing out here but the hustle,” Alexandra tells us. If anything, that is the moral of the movie."

"Raucously entertaining."

"Magnolia in its ambition and Curb Your Enthusiasm in its dark humour..."

"The film's smart craftsmanship is ultimately less noteworthy than its humanizing, prejudice-challenging immersion into the lives of people who inhabit L.A.'s low-end drug and sex industry."

"In Baker, we have a director who can make ordinary, quirky and disorganised lives seem colourful, compelling and most of all, humanistic."