The film's a joint triumph and shares the spoils with its star. Cast in the title role, 25-year-old Mikey Madison gives a performance for the ages. She rustles up a flawed, fearsome heroine who's as gorgeous and grubby as life.
Ani's strip club attracts all manner of losers, but some of these deadbeats are more solvent than others. Vanya, the gawky son of a Russian oligarch, offers the dancer $15,000 to be his horny girlfriend for the week.
Anora deepens and darkens with each twist and turn and provides a violent corrective to so many Hollywood fairytales. All relationships, perhaps, are in part transactional.
While Baker has already won plaudits for his previous work (Tangerine, The Florida Project, 2021's Red Rocket), this boisterous New York caper vaults him towards greatness.
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