Baker’s watchword, as it were, is no indictment, no condemnation. When it comes to Ani, that’s fine. When it comes to the social order, that turns into artistic and social negligence.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2025

There’s a sense that “Anora” has little beyond ambivalence for the characters within it.

| Apr 13, 2025

Baker proves his point in a movie of split motivations held together by the revelation that is Mikey Madison.

| Mar 23, 2025

The final gut punch of Anora is in Sean Baker's decision to suggest what these characters will do after the movie ends. It is a moment of emotional vitality and unexpected truth, delivered with the help of Mikey Madison's wondrous performance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 18, 2025

Anora may be the clearest example of class solidarity put to film in recent years. A f----d up Cinderella story about the ways in which our capitalistic society regularly makes financial security and uninhibited self-expression mutually exclusive...

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 9, 2025

In the second section... we lose the Ani we’d come to know.

| Mar 4, 2025

Up to and particularly including the last 30 minutes of this 139-minute gem of originality, I had zero idea where the story was going.

| Original Score: A | Feb 28, 2025

In Anora, Sean Baker takes his formula to the next level with a film about love, dreams, and reality that might get him the Oscar he deserves.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 28, 2025

Baker masterfully explores economic inequality, turning the marriage between an escort and a wealthy heir into a gripping power struggle.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 25, 2025

A film that comes together in its final moments, anchored by Mikey Madison’s star-making turn.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 25, 2025

Anora is a great showcase for actress Mikey Madison. She enriches scenes with dark humour and an expressiveness that underlines the deepest longing for human connection recently put on film.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 21, 2025

Baker has always been at his best capturing the lives of those on society’s fringes, but here, he seems too entranced by the performance of sex work to meaningfully explore the person behind it.

| Feb 21, 2025

…if you get a chance to see Sean Baker's Anora, go in with an open mind and give it a chance; it's slow and careful with the main character’s emotions, then fleets and crazy as her world spins out of her control; Anora's story comes up fresh as paint.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 12, 2025

With Anora, intentionally or not, Sean Baker has made an anti-Pretty Woman which is more grounded and realistic, yet not wholly devoid of empathy and compassion.

| Feb 11, 2025

Anora does touch on Big Themes like class warfare and female empowerment, but first and foremost, it's a genre-bending mix of screwball comedy, unlikely romance, thriller and character-drama that keeps the pace up and the laughs coming throughout.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 10, 2025

This year's Critics Choice Best Picture winner is a major Oscar contender and - while it may have a similar concept to 'Pretty Woman' - there's one helluva difference.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 8, 2025

One of the year's best films also contains one of the very best set-pieces found in 2024 cinema.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 5, 2025

A love story marked by the complex mechanisms of economic power and social hierarchies, which can mercilessly destroy the human being. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 1, 2025

Anora is a comedy that has its moments of slapstick, of physical humor in the best style of classic Hollywood comedies, but that will open the eyes of many for its daringness, for its boldness. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 1, 2025

Beneath its vibrant chaos, Anora reveals a haunting truth about isolation and the dehumanization of modern society.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 29, 2025