Although it is just plain fun to rank a director's movies, it may also help me think about the director's oeuvre of work as a whole. Comparisons can help me to discover elements of film that I am drawn to, what the director finds value in revealing through their movies and possibly how the director has grown artistically.
Sean Baker is a unique and fresh voice in the filmmaking world. He tends to focus on characters and locations that are not mainstream, that rarely are depicted in popular culture, especially through such a humanistic lens. These characters often include people who are sex-workers, poor, immigrants, and/or refugees.
Baker neither glorifies or dehumanizes these characters, but instead focuses on the authentic…
