• One Win After Another for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Pynchonesque Picture

    December 19, 2025: One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, earned top honors at the Florida Film Critics Circle’s 2025 awards.  Anderson’s tenth feature film won six awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, the last of which is a new category that the Circle voted […]

  • Hap Erstein — RIP

    Members of the Florida Film Critics Circle are heartbroken to learn that longtime colleague Hap Erstein died on July 5. According to Florida Theater On Stage, Erstein had been fighting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD for years. A theater critic for The Palm Beach Post for 14 years until 2008 and for The Washington Times from 1982-1994, Erstein earned […]

  • “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 review Alberto Rodríguez’s ‘Marshland’

FFCC members review Alberto Rodríguez’s award-winning thriller from Spain, Marshland (La isla mínima). It has it’s U.S. theatrical premiere in South Florida today.

Miami Herald critic Rene Rodriguez on the repertory cinema boom in Miami

Miami Herald critic Rene Rodriguez recently wrote a front page story covering the boom of repertory cinema in Miami.

Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Look of Silence, interview by Hans Morgenstern

FFCC member Hans Morgenstern spoke to Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer about his latest film, The Look of Silence. His two-part interview covers everything from Oppenheimer’s influences to how his film strives to offer a sense of healing in the wake of the Indonesian genocide …

FFCC members review Christian Petzold’s ‘Phoenix’

FFCC members review Christian Petzold’s latest film: the post-WWII drama Phoenix.

FFCC members review Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s ‘The Tribe’

FFCC members review Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s all-deaf cast drama from the Ukraine, The Tribe.