Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: This was a fun, outrageous, smart, hilarious, and heartfelt experience. This is filmmaking firing on all cylinders.
- David “DC” Bolling @ DC’s Take
- Excerpt: Anora aims to be Sean Baker’s best and most rewatchable work of his career. Allowing an Oscar-Worthy Mikey Madison to take center stage with a grounded-in-reality screenplay, it’s an original romantic dramedy easy to fall for.
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Madison grabs the spotlight as the sweet paid party girl who turns Tasmanian Devil when threatened and who will put a real human face on the sex worker, her last scene an unexpected tonal shift which casts a new light on all that’s come before.
- Christopher Cross @ Asynchronous Media
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: While blending humor with tension, the film feels stretched and unresolved. Yet, it provides a unique glimpse at a failed romance shaped by class and privilege.
- Kat Hughes @ THN
- Piers Marchant @ Cinemotic
- Excerpt: Baker’s pronounced humanism is one of his strongest superpowers as a director. Whether they are trans sex workers (Tangerine), young children living in a motel (The Florida Project), or con artists new to town (Red Rocket), his generosity with his characters — you get the idea that Baker absolutely adores all of his characters, even the more horrible ones — always shines through.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: It’s a wild ride through Brooklyn that entertains and thrills in equal measure. Madison is truly a force of nature when it comes to standing her ground—even if her footing simply can’t compete with that of those pushing her around.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Aided by a fierce lead performance from Mikey Madison…there’s a lot to enjoy thanks to how this movie sets its sights on establishing familiar setups and completely flipping the table, to end up with something edgier, grander, and effectively emotional.
- Tusshar Sasi @ Filmy Sasi
- Andrew Wyatt @ The Take-Up
- [New] | Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Focusing on a superb lead performance, and making use of a grungy, contrasting, intimate and textured aesthetic, Sean Baker presents us with what could very well be his best film yet.
