• “The Boy and the Heron” flies high with Florida Film Critics

    December 21, 2023: For the first time in its history, the Florida Film Critics Circle awarded an animated film its top prize: The Boy and the Heron won Best Picture. Hayao Miyazaki’s first film in a decade, a somber, fiercely felt meditation on loss and its ripple effects, also secured Best Animated Film and Best […]

The Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) is an organization of film critics and writers from Florida-based print and online publications. Founded in 1996, the FFCC strives to recognize outstanding work in film, further the cause of good movies, and maintain the highest level of professionalism among film critics in Florida.

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Naji Abu Nowar, director of ‘Theeb,’ two-part interview by Hans Morgenstern

FFCC member Hans Morgenstern spoke to Naji Abu Nowar, the director of Theeb, Jordan’s entry to the best foreign language film competition at the Oscars.

FFCC members on ‘What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy’

  FFCC critics provide their takes on David Evans and Philippe Sands’ documentary What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy.

Laurent Cantet , director of ‘Return to Ithaca’, interview by Hans Morgenstern

FFCC member Hans Morgenstern spoke to the Oscar-nominated French director Laurent Cantet about Return to Ithaca, which had its U.S. premiere this past Friday, at Coral Gables Art Cinema.

FFCC members review Hou Hsiao-hsien’s ‘The Assassin’

FFCC members review Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first wuxia movie The Assassin.

FFCC members on ‘Room’

FFCC members review Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Room starring Brie Larson.