Tangerine (2016)

Tangerine, Sean Baker’s 2015 film about transgender sex workers struggling through the holidays, is at the top of Rotten Tomatoes’ recent list of classic modern Christmas movies.

“I love this,” said Baker, Tangerine‘s writer-director, in response. “I remember setting out on this adventure with my co-writer Chris Bergoch (who was the one who suggested the Christmas backdrop) and it was Chris’s hope that audiences would not only see Tangerine as a Christmas film but return to it year after year because of that. So we are just really tickled pink about this news.”

Baker is everywhere this awards season thanks to the success of his new film Anora, which you can read much more about in our recent cover story.