With his fractured fairy tale about a stripper who falls for the son of a Russian oligarch, the filmmaker evokes the spirit of ’70s cinema while eliciting a star-making turn from Mikey Madison.

Imagining “Anora” without its hero location is impossible: an enormous glass mansion overlooking the Mill Basin in Brooklyn.

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Thank God for those wedding videos because I honestly don't think I would have wanted to tackle a Russian story without ...

If Sean Baker’s film has an audience surrogate, it’s Igor, Yura Borisov’s soft-spoken heavy with a resigned affect, a pleading look, and a growing crush on Ani that culminates in the film’s enigmatic ...

For the last two weeks the Babcock has been showing Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's "Cornetto Trilogy," and that'll end at 7 ...

"Anora" is the story of a stripper who meets and marries a Russian billionaire. Their story, featuring a towering lead ...

"Any filmmaker my age (53) has to admit 'Star Wars' was incredibly inspirational, but then as I grew older and started ...

The film world is all abuzz over the premiere of 'Wicked', but I saw two other movies in theaters this week and they were ...

The filmmaker has thrived with tales of lost souls on the fringe of society. In previous movies, Baker relied more on ...

Already the highest-grossing limited-release movie of the year, blowing away competition in the form of Kinds of Kindness and ...

The star of Anora is determined to navigate Hollywood her way.