The storytelling is entertainingly confident but tonally dissonant, though Baker stirs a host of strong performances for his ...

"Frenetic and funny, fiery and profane", Sean Baker's "brilliant" new film, "Anora" is a "screwball Cinderella tale", said ...

Anora' star Mikey Madison will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award at the 2025 Palm Springs Film Festival in January.

The 25-year-old star of “Anora” is about to add a Breakthrough Performance Award to her mantel. Mikey Madison will accept the ...

In Sean Baker's tragicomic film of a sex worker’s brush with wealth, he evokes auteurs of yore, who focused on the social ...

Just a few minutes into Anora, there's a small but telling detail in a small but important moment: The movie starts in a ...

Sex workers have long been separated from the main body of the working class by generations of feminist campaigning that ...

A former stripper analyzes writer-director Sean Baker's movie about an exotic dancer (played by Mikey Madison) to see how ...

On Sean Baker’s clear-eyed sympathy.

A fairy tale — or at least a version of one — shatters into a million tiny pieces in "Anora," writer-director Sean Baker's cracked romantic comedy which sends viewers on a dizzying high and then slams ...

“Hi, I’m Sean Baker. I’m the writer, director and editor of “Anora.” This is the scene in which our protagonist, Ani, played by Mikey Madison, is arriving at the house supposedly owned by Ivan ...

Baker purposely left the ending ambiguous – but the complex emotions Anora goes through reflect how she has not just gone ...