The Florida Project - Movie Reviews (2024)

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Dec 29, 2021

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

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

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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]

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

Fizzing with vitality, brimful of empathy and insight.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2020

One of 2017's most outstanding cinematic achievements.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2020

It's ironic, living so close to the 'Happiest place on Earth', but having to fight for your survival every day. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 4, 2020

A picture of people barely holding, who are complex and damaged, but look out for one another when no one else will. Real and raw, crushing and beautiful, and a scathing indictment of capitalism and a system that treats people as disposable

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 1, 2020

But it's the elevation of the source material into such a delicate yet layered narrative that evinces true artistry.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2020

Baker encloses a relevant social commentary about inequality on the darker sides of a castle of innocence, which is undoubtedly its strongest point, but the plot feels a little silly. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 27, 2020