Sean Baker is an American director known for intimate character studies set in overlooked corners of contemporary life, as seen in the indie hit Tangerine and the acclaimed dramas The Florida Project and Anora. I have reviewed 3 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 2.5★
Sean Baker is one of the more interesting independent voices working in American cinema right now, a filmmaker who has made a habit of finding stories in places mainstream Hollywood would rather not look. Before The Florida Project, he was perhaps best known for Tangerine (2015), a vivid, kinetic drama
Rating: 4.0★
Sean Baker has spent the better part of two decades making films about people living at the edges of the American dream, and Anora is, in many respects, the moment that world broke through to the mainstream. Shot on location across Brooklyn and New York City, the film follows Anora,
Rating: 3.5★
There is a moment, maybe twenty minutes into Tangerine, where it dawns on you that you are watching something genuinely alive. Not polished, not composed for maximum effect, but actually alive, with all the noise and heat and mess that implies. And then you remember it was shot on a
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