Profound and powerful.

Pretentious and pedantic.

"Just because you are a character, doesn't mean that you have character."

Tragic yet optimistic, The Florida Project is a magical realist perspective on Florida culture outside the distant castle walls of the American Disney empire; a radiant but disintegrating swamp of floral-painted hotels as landing pads for pollinating insects. Is there a better independent director in U.S. cinema today than Sean Baker? I don't believe so.