86
Metascore
35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Screen DailyJohn HazeltonScreen DailyJohn HazeltonTangerine paints a portrait of transgender sex workers and their clients that pulses with raunchy energy and compassionate humour. It’s a bracing slice of American indie film-making.
- 91The PlaylistKatie WalshThe PlaylistKatie WalshUtilizing underseen subjects, [Baker] captures their world in a thoughtful and artful way, and it also happens to be a damn fun ride.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernEntertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernTangerine is touching for its non-condescending stance toward working girls and the spirit of the sidewalk.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe 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.
- 90VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangWriter-director Sean Baker’s sun-scorched, street-level snapshot is a work of rueful, matter-of-fact insight and unapologetically wild humor that draws a motley collection of funny, sad and desperate individuals into its protagonists’ orbit.
- 90Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekIn the early minutes you might not be sure what you're watching. Tangerine's a comedy, of course, laced with rambunctious, exuberantly ragged dialogue. But by the end, Baker and his actors have led us to a place beyond comedy — you may still be laughing, but your breath catches a little on the way out.
- 75Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezIts triumph is primarily a matter of style, a visionary revelation every bit as expressionistic as its main character's electric sense of shade.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreA feisty, funny, down-and-dirty farce as nasty as a Supreme Court dissent, as timely as a Jenner magazine cover.
- 70The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyBaker revels in the power of clichés and the generic energy of his low-fi cinematography, which is done with a cell phone. The results are picturesque and anecdotal.