It's another week, and another film has emerged as the best picture frontrunner at the Academy Awards. "Anora" picked up the top honors at the Critics Choice, Directors Guild and Producers Guild ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: NEON Sean Baker has been killing it at the center of independent film for years. He has left a lasting impression ...

Sean Baker’s previous film, 2022’s Red Rocket (2022), began with *NSYNC’s Spotify-topping “Bye Bye Bye,” but Anora starts with the slightly lesser-known “Greatest Days” by British boy band Take That.

The director of 'The Florida Project' reaffirms his knack for spotting talent — and suspending judgment — in casting Mikey Madison as an exotic dancer who thinks she's found her whale. The title ...

Mikey Madison gives a star-making performance as a sex worker in ‘Anora,’ a romantic comedy-drama that’s as soulful as it is relentlessly chaotic. The latter are front and center in ‘Anora,’ whose ...

BOTTOM LINE An edgy rom-com with sparkling performances and unpredictable energy. The title character in Sean Baker’s “Anora” does not like her name. It’s Russian, and she prefers the ...

Running time: 139 minutes. Rated R (strong sexual content throughout, graphic nudity, pervasive language, and drug use). In theaters. It’s easy to fall hard for Mikey Madison in “Anora,” director Sean ...

The term “screwball comedy” is a bit misleading. The distinguishing element of these movies isn’t so much their wacky humor but their mismatched personalities: The leading examples featured vivacious, ...

Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner ANORA follows a Brooklyn exotic dancer who marries the son of a Russian oligarch and the wild series of events after the oligarch finds out and sets out to annul the marriage ...

This film begins by introducing us to the dark-haired Anora’s world at her strip club where she goes from one client to the next, occasionally pissing off her red-haired co-worker Diamond (a ...