While relatively low-budget, this is the director’s biggest film to date-there’s no shaky camerawork or poor sound quality here, and working, notable actors are seemingly getting working day rates. Results is a significant departure for Andrew Bujalski.
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(Read the full review here.) - Christine N. This isn’t a straight-up, feel-good comedy-drugs and gangs aren’t easy comic fodder-but Dope satirizes preconceived notions of race and culture, and Famuyiwa keeps things entertaining while still posing hard-hitting questions to the characters and audience. Despite jarring shifts in tone, the film deftly raises important issues about socioeconomics and race in America without sermonizing its audience. A critical and audience favorite from this year’s Sundance Film Fest, Famuyiwa’s frenetic mashup of twisted cautionary tale-meets-comedy caper touches upon all three definitions. Writer-director Rick Famuyiwa’s latest feature opens with onscreen definitions of its title, Dope, referencing 1. (Read the full review here.) - Andy Crump And Tangerine gazes far deeper than that. And that happens to be the film’s greatest stunt: We think ourselves apart from these women, utterly different, but the truth is that we’re far more alike than we realize at a glance. Baker invites us to feel what Sin-Dee and Alexandra feel, which frankly isn’t that far off from what most of us feel in our day to day. Sean Baker, directing through iPhones outfitted with anamorphic lens adapters, has a mission, much like his protagonists, two transgendered prostitutes working Santa Monica Boulevard. Tangerine is an uncontrollable, outsized experience, contradictorily a brisk, compact 88 minutes totally absent of waste. From transgender sex workers to heroic sex strikers, here are the top 50 movies of 2015. But we don’t see that as a failing we actually see it as a happy circumstance where we’re able to bring you our very favorite films, many of which seem to be falling through the cracks, awards-wise. In fact, in our Top Fifty Movies of the Year list, below, it’s very possible that none of our top 25 will be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Several of us have felt very out of sync with the critical consensus. It’s been a strange year for film here at Paste.
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