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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Writer/director Sean Baker likes to tell stories about people who live on the margins of mainstream society. That makes his ...