Anora

2024

Sean Baker

139 min

Drama, Comedy, Romance

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 his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.

Anora
Podcast

'Anora' Is Pure Cinema and the Best Picture Race Is Completely Up in the Air

The Big Picture

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins discuss Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner.

2024-10-21

Podcast

The 2025 Oscars: 'Anora' Has the Greatest Day

The Big Picture

The Big Picture reacts to Anora's sweep at the 2025 Academy Awards.

2025-03-03

Podcast

#452: Cinde-F***ing-Rella, Pt. 2 — Anora

Next Picture Show

Next Picture Show pairs Anora with Pretty Woman in a Cinderella story deep dive.

2024-11-26

Podcast

After Dark: Anora

The Filmcast

The Filmcast's dedicated review of Anora.

2024-11-16

Podcast

"Anora," "Blitz," "Heretic"

Grierson & Leitch

Tim Grierson and Will Leitch review Anora.

2024-11-11

Review

'Anora' Review: Sean Baker's Whirlwind Sex-Work Romance Sparkles

Variety · Peter Debruge

Variety calls Anora 'the uncut gem of this year's Cannes competition' — a rowdy, subversively romantic sex farce.

2024-05-21

Review

Anora

RogerEbert.com

RogerEbert.com praises Anora as 'powerful, spirited and rollicking' — both thrilling and heartbreaking.

2024-10-18

Feature

Less Sex Scenes, More Sex Shots: Sean Baker and Mikey Madison on Anora

RogerEbert.com · Nick Allen

Sean Baker and Mikey Madison discuss the making of Anora and their approach to the film's intimacy.

2024-10-18

Feature

Anora

The Criterion Collection

Criterion's release with essays by Dennis Lim and Kier-La Janisse, plus a 67-minute making-of documentary.

2025-05-06

Feature

Sean Baker on Criterion, Anora, and Exploitation

Vanyaland

Baker discusses the Criterion release and how Anora would have been marketed as exploitation cinema in the 1970s.

2025-05-06

Feature

Sex, Power, and Representation: Analyzing Sean Baker's Anora Through Feminist and Auteur Lenses

High on Films

An analytical essay examining Anora's treatment of sex work, power, and representation.

2024-12-10

Review

Anora: Cannes Review

Screen Daily

Screen Daily's Cannes review of Sean Baker's Palme d'Or-winning screwball comedy.

2024-05-21

Review

Anora: As a Sex Worker, I Find It a Bit More Complicated

Slate

A sex worker's perspective on Anora — finding the film beloved by critics but more complicated in its portrayal.

2024-10-21

Feature

Sean Baker Breaks Down Four Key Scenes from Anora

Screen Daily

Baker breaks down four key scenes and his approach to actor improvisation.

2025-02-10

Review

Anora review – Sean Baker's amazing, full-throttle tragicomedy

The Guardian · Peter Bradshaw

Bradshaw compares it to Pretty Woman — an amazing, full-throttle tragicomedy of romance, denial and betrayal.

2024-05-21

Review

Anora review: Mikey Madison Leads Lovely, Chaotic Cinderella Story

The A.V. Club

AV Club praises Madison's star-making turn in Baker's brilliant inversion of the Cinderella tale.

2024-10-18

Feature

Anora's Honor

The New York Review of Books · Anna Shechtman and D. A. Miller

A deep literary analysis of Anora through the lens of honor, class, and the sex work narrative.

2024-11-01

Feature

A Second Look at Anora

The Criterion Collection

Criterion's essay revisiting Anora after its Oscar sweep.

2025-05-01