Florida Film Critics Circle

“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 […]
Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, May December lead pack with most nominations

The true story about the scientist who led the American development of the atomic bomb went nuclear with the Florida Film Critics Circle.

FFCC Awards

“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 […]

2022 FFCC Award Winners

A memoir at one of Miami’s long gone art houses: The Grove Cinema by Hans Morgenstern

FFCC member Hans Morgenstern tracked down the Fabulous Flying Fendelman Brothers to reminiscence about Coconut Grove’s long gone art house movie theater, The Grove Cinema, in the Miami New Times.

FFCC members review Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Sicario’

FFCC members review Denis Villeneuve’s latest thriller Sicario.

FFCC members review Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian’

FFCC members weigh in on Ridley Scott’s science fiction dramedy, The Martian.

Miami hosts U.S. theatrical premiere of Venezuelan film ‘The Longest Distance’; 2 FFCC critics’ opposing views

The Coral Gables Art Cinema in Miami is hosting the U.S. theatrical premiere of Venezuelan director Claudia Pinto Emperador’s feature debut The Longest Distance (La Distancia Mas Larga). Here are two opposing views on the film by Miami New Times film critic Hans Morgenstern and Miami Herald film critic Rene Rodriguez.