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Great Film overall

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Borne in the crack pipe dreams of transgender prostitutes is where this movie starts and finishes. And in between it bathes in its feces with the most superlative vanity. It etches obscene graffiti into donut shop tables and it shoots heroin in taxi cabs that reek of vomit. It masturbates in public. It flashes people in the park. It rivals even the reigning champ of filthiness, Pink Flamingos, but it takes the story telling element a step further in delivering an important message about the American Dream perceived by the lowest of the low - the outcasts of society. Even the people you're embarrassed to know want to climb that ladder, and I feel this movie voices those characters in an incredible way. Kitana Kiki Rodriguez as Sin-Dee wants a loyal husband and a normal life where she can support herself. Mya Taylor wants to become a recognized singer and performs a Christmas show every year. And Karren Karagulian moved to the US from Armenia to support his family and explore his sexuality. Each visionary gives an incredible performance, and each captures that feeling of that one crazy person you might see on the street somewhere. The chaotic energy of this movie is definitely heightened by the frantic camerawork, or rather phonework I guess because it's well known by now that this was filmed entirely on just three iPhone 5s's (which definitely add to the grimy and modern feel. It's probably the best choice Baker could have made to present this film. It feels like some random fight scene put up on Worldstar, filmed by an audience of phones with cracked screens; it's just how things are in this age and it was a brilliant move) which attempts to keep up with the drives of the characters, especially Rodriguez. I will say that a lot of the movie around and the jumping from polar opposites in tone and just scenarios gave me some mild nausea, and it gave an air of being unfocused. The powerhouse starts strong and also finishes strong, but it did lose some steam in the center making the film feel a little longer than it really was. Cutting out some fat and perhaps following some scenes out completely before switching to something new could make this movie I love. When Baker lets scenes like the showdown at Donut Time just breathe and play them to their extent, giving them the perfect Lubitsch Touch, it really is some kind of dark magic.

Love, loss, tantrums, breakups and break ins! Loved it! Watch it! It's simply beautiful and gorgeous ... :D

This film shocked me at how it can show how bad some people have it while still making me laugh. There are some moments that are sickening and hard to watch but are necessary to really display what the characters go through. The film starts slow and I found the characters almost annoying at the start but as the film goes on your start to see who they really are and then feel some kind of sympathy for them. There is a lot of dark humor in here not the sort of jokes everybody will find funny. Overall this is really not an easy movie to watch. This is a film all about characters so I suggest you only watch if your very open minded. This is not an action film or comedy it's a depressing drama so be ready for that.

It's a fun and oddly comforting cliché to assume behind every arrogant windbag film critic, there's a frustrated filmmaker dying to make something worthwhile. While I doubt this is the case in most circumstances, it is partially true of yours truly. Godard, Bunuel, Spielberg; who can possibly stack up amidst such brilliant craftsmen? What on earth could I make, that would be worthy; that could enrich the lives of viewers the world?Tangerine would be the film I'd make, if not for the frustrating fact that it's already exists. Kitana Kiki Rodriguez plays the emotionally unhinged Sin-Dee, a transgendered sex worker who has just finished a short stay in prison. She meets up with her best friend and fellow prostitute Alexandra (Taylor) who amid pleasantries and wisecracks reveals Sin-Dee's pimp and boyfriend Chester (Ransone) has been sleeping with another woman. What's worse, the woman in question is cisgendered. We then follow Sin- Dee's stormy odyssey as she tracks down Chester and his new paramore. Meanwhile the more practical Alexandra meets up with her regular Razmik (Karagulian). Dinah (O'Hagan) a third prostitute holes up in a musky motel brothel. And to top everything else, it's Christmas in L.A. and the freaks are out to play.Every actor and actress in the film does wonders as earthy and authentic L.A. denizens. Even minor characters such as the LAPD officers who razz the girls on street corner feel so authentic that I wouldn't be surprised if they were real cops. The heart and soul of the film however are Rodriguez and Taylor retrospectively. In a film brimming with shrieking melodrama and gritty inner-city turmoil their sensitive portrayals and deft emotional instincts elevates Tangerines from what could have been an insincere and grossly insensitive slum travelogue.Much hubbub was made of Tangerine's kitschy film-production on the festival circuit. The movie was shot on three iPhone 5s and edited using a host of DIY techniques to make the film seem cinematic. Even as Tangerine echos the gritty aesthetic of Italian neo-realism, Director Sean Baker admits that his cinematic vision was largely cobbled together because of minuscule budget and shooting time restraints. Yet due to clever guerrilla marketing much traction, attention and interest in the project stems from its embrace of lo- fi filmmaking.If knowing the film was shot on smartphone gets butts in the seats, I applaud the producers for using that as a selling point. Whether the novelty becomes a hindrance a la The Blair Witch Project (1999) or it feels like an organic component to the mis en scene (Chronicle (2012) anyone), is up to you. I'm just happy that Duplass Brothers Productions has added a film to their growing revue that doesn't ventilate about the problems of melancholic white folk.Heart-touchingly harrowing, caustically funny and thoroughly engaging, Tangerine is an infuriatingly good movie. It's the type of film that takes all the frenetic excitement of making a micro-budget guerrilla movie and puts the audience right into the fray. First year film students will watch and feel pressed to work harder to make more, do more and be more as artists. Furthermore, this exciting and brilliant little film shines a harsh light on the lives of complex and redeemable people who are forced to live on the fringes of an increasingly hostile society. With the T part of the LGBT struggle sadly becoming more grueling, Tangerine will only become more relevant in the years to come.