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Anora
Sean Baker continues to be one of the most fascinating and empathetic voices in film today, and with Anora, achieves his best character work. Ani Mikheeva (Mikey Madison) and her whirlwind romance with Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn) is so maddeningly authentic that I don’t want there story to end. It’s one of those films where I feel like I can still picture where these characters go after the final scene, and I’d want to watch it. Whether I like the characters or not frankly doesn’t matter, it’s just so joyful to see a movie with characters this real and messy on screen. The whole movie feels like a crazy story I heard from someone at a bar, and I loved it.
