The writer, director and editor Sean Baker narrates a sequence from his comedy featuring Mikey Madison and Mark Eydelshteyn.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

“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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Walking out of the matinee showing of “Anora” Sunday afternoon, movie-goers could be heard commenting on the ...

But while he’s had success before, this year’s “Anora” is the first of his films that has broken through in such a massive ...