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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Neon
- 2 h 19 m
- 2024
- R
- Neon
- 2 h 19 m
Summary Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Directed By: Sean Baker
Written By: Sean Baker
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Neon
- 2 h 19 m
- 2024
- R
- Neon
- 2 h 19 m
Anora
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Summary Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
Directed By: Sean Baker
Written By: Sean Baker
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 59 Critic Reviews
91
98% Positive
58 Reviews
58 Reviews
2% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 59 Critic Reviews
91
98% Positive
58 Reviews
58 Reviews
2% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Anora deepens and darkens with each twist and turn and provides a violent corrective to so many Hollywood fairytales.
This is a story of wealth, and power, and what love can and can’t overcome. But it’s also about something far more heart-rending: what it means to be accustomed to being looked at one way, and then experiencing, out of the blue, what it feels like to actually be seen.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 195 User Ratings
6.3
65% Positive
126 Ratings
126 Ratings
5% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
30% Negative
59 Ratings
59 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 195 User Ratings
6.3
65% Positive
126 Ratings
126 Ratings
5% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
30% Negative
59 Ratings
59 Ratings
Anora is a masterpiece. It's sexy, funny, and depressing as hell how ugly this world can get. The acting by Mikey Madison is not to miss on the big screen and this film is almost anxiety induced as Uncut Gems. Crazy how much emphasis and detail they put into this film and Sean Baker nailed it.
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Anora is long, but unbelievably hilarious and entertaining movie with great cinematography and perfect acting.
The writing is perfect. The story is fresh and unexpected, the plot is engaging. The dialogues are just perfect. I can't tell you how much fun I had with this movie, it's been a while since I laughed every other minute in a movie. The characters are amazingly-written. Anora is an awesome character and the ending is just perfect. I love how the movie portrays the spoiled rich child and the toxic, overprotective mother. On the other hand, I loved the father. Igor is the best character, he is extremely funny.
The cinematography is really amazing with lots of hand held camera work. The direction is great, but the pacing is just bad. The beginning was a little too long. The acting performances were spectacular. Mikey Madison is definitely up for an Oscar nomination. The trio who played the Armenians were also wonderful, their performances made the movie utterly funny. There was no actor in this movie, who didn't give 100%, everyone was amazing.
Anora is one of the best films of the year.
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Every character in Anora might be an utter nightmare, but they’re also a joy to spend time with, and the cast understand them down to their smallest behavioural tells.
Baker cuts straight to the feeling – and because of his fearless filmmaking, this career-best film, in all its crushing and chaotic glory, demands to be felt.
Like Mikey Madison’s title character, Anora is pretty, messy, witty, wild, and highly competent, one of the funniest, saddest, and best films of the year.
Though Anora frequently sparkles, it’s also inconsistent, so it falls short of becoming a classic of its genre. Still, thanks to its appealingly youthful energy and its earthy performances, it’s one of the spiciest comedies of the year.
There’s a significant work of art lurking within “Anora,” but it’s confined within the limits of a potboiler.
The first scene in this film is a dolly shot down a row of erotic dancers plying their trade on customers' laps. This unabashed nudity and sexuality pervades the first half of the film. Mikey Madison plays the title character, a sex worker from Brooklyn who meets and impulsively marries the son of a rich Russian oligarch. When his parents find out, thugs are dispatched to intervene. That's when the film takes a turn for the comic. The efforts to correct the situation are chaotic and crazy. Thanks to bold, yet subtle performances, the cast is loaded with traditionally despicable people who are fun to watch. Writer/director/editor Sean Baker delights in interesting characters put in unique situations and this film continues that tradition. It's wild and witty, funny and sad, insane and sweet. One of the year's most memorable movies.
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We’re all familiar with the old adage that, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. It’s a notion that applies not only to what can happen in everyday life, but also to what shows up on the big screen, as the latest feature from writer-director Sean Baker illustrates. This widely acclaimed indie offering follows the misadventures of a Brooklyn lap dancer/sex worker (Mikey Madison) who falls for the insanely rich, self-absorbed, wildly irresponsible son of a Russian oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn). Together they take the plunge into an edgy, wacked-out fairy tale, a dark storybook romance strung out on steroids, quaaludes and crack. Their whirlwind affair soon lands them in Las Vegas, culminating in a green card wedding that junior’s mobster parents (Darya Ekamasova, Aleksey Serebryakov) want annulled at any cost, even if it means calling on their oily, bumbling posse of cronies and heavies (Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Yura Borisov) to lean on the alleged lovebirds. But achieving that goal ultimately proves more difficult than imagined. As a cross-country chase ensues, a string of frenzied events leaves mom, dad and friends infuriated and the Gothamite Cinderella disillusioned, having erroneously thought she’d truly hit the jackpot this time. From this, one might easily think this premise has a solid foundation for an outrageous, uproarious comedy, but, sadly, the film lives up to its potential only some of the time. To be sure, there is some genuinely hysterical, wonderfully inventive material here, but it only hits the mark about half the time. What’s more, much of the story (especially in the film’s first half) is predictable, almost clichéd, with some bits dragging on needlessly long. Indeed, I’m somewhat mystified as to what all the critical fuss is about, something perhaps best evidenced by the picture’s capture of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the event’s highest honor. I readily admit to being a fan of Baker’s work, having immensely enjoyed his previous efforts “Red Rocket” (2021), “The Florida Project” (2017) and “Tangerine” (2015). But I’m genuinely at a loss to understand the level of praise that’s been lavished on this release. It’s a capable film in a number of respects, but the filmmaker clearly has done better, and those prior offerings make better viewing options in my opinion. Don’t fall for all the hype here, as this really is one of those cases of something being too good to be true.
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After a really strong start with great acting, character moments, and humor, the movie stumbles and loses its footing as it devolves into a slapstick comedy and repetitive trek through NYC, completely devoid of tension. It snaps back into focus in its final minutes, delivering a meditation on our main character that is not really all that surprising or profound. It feels its length and then some.
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To be honest, didn't enjoy the movie, and I would have stopped it if I would have watched it on a streaming platform and not in a cinema with a group of people. I was really thinking to leave for a while. The first 40-50 mins for me it was hard to watch. The actors/actresses overplayed, there was no deep characteristics, not too much background story, couldn't connect to the characters, many things were just touching the surface and felt they made this movie for teenagers or people in their twenties, like a simple comedy.
After the beginning, it started to be more interesting, some characters started to develop (not the main characters tho), they added some good humor, but still it didn't turn out that good that I expected from this movie. Eventually the ending was a bit better, some characters had gotten somewhere, others just simply disappeared , and it gave a moral lesson to the story, but altogether with the flat movie it wasn't a touching ending.
I understand what the creators wanted to show, but somehow it just didn't get there as it could have been. It just gave a B category taste altogether.
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Production Company
Cre Film,
FilmNation Entertainment
Release Date Oct 18, 2024
Duration 2 h 19 m
Rating R
Tagline Love is a hustle.
Awards
Gotham Awards
• 4 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Mill Valley Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination