• “THE BEAST” DOMINATES FFCC AWARDS WITH THREE WINS, “DUNE: PART TWO” WINS TWO  

    December 21, 2024: A loose adaptation of a Henry James short story took the Florida Film Critics Circle’s top prize in its 2024 awards. “The Beast,” a visionary, sci-fi tinged portrait of doomed love across three different time periods, won Best Picture. The French-Canadian co-production also nabbed Best Director honors for Bertrand Bonello and Best […]

  • “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.

Features & News

FFCC members on ’20th Century Women’

FFCC members on Mike Mills’ latest feature film 20th Century Women.

FFCC members on Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Paterson’

FFCC members on American writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s low-key indie drama Paterson

2016 FFCC Award Winners

‘Moonlight’ leads 2016 Florida Film Critics Awards Nominations

The Florida Film Critics Circle has announced its nominees for the best films and cinematic performances of 2016, and the much-loved, Miami-made Moonlight leads the field with 10 nominations. The film, nominated for best picture, focuses on a gay black man growing up in the hyper-masculine world of Miami’s crime-ridden neighborhood of Liberty City. The […]

FFCC members on Gareth Edwards’ ‘Rogue One, A Star Wars Story’

FFCC members on the latest in the Star Wars franchise, Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One, A Star Wars Story