section_path: Reception/Critical response
section_name: Critical response
paragraph_text: Critical response
  
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 336 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Another marvelous chronicle of America's strivers by writer-director Sean Baker given some extra pizzazz by Mikey Madison's brassy performance, Anora is a romantic drama on the bleeding edge." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 91 out of 100, based on 62 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 4.2 out of 5, based on 45 reviews, from French critics.
  
  Greta Gerwig, serving as the president of the 77th Cannes Film Festival Jury, commented that " was something we collectively felt we were transported by, we were moved by It felt both new and in conversation with older forms of cinema. There was something about it that reminded us of classic structures of Lubitsch or Howard Hawks, and then it did something completely truthful and unexpected."
  
  Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote: " a wild, profane blast Even when Baker's storytelling and dialogue gets repetitive, Madison keeps things lively Still, a darkness thrums under the surface of all this flirting and bickering. Ani is forever yanked this way and that, degraded and disregarded I found myself torn between finding Baker's conclusions compassionate and sensing a vague whiff of something patronizing." Justin Chang of The New Yorker wrote: " Anora plays like a wild dream—first joyous, then catastrophic, and always fiercely unpredictable A contemporary return to screwball tradition is a welcome but challenging proposition, and Baker's play with the form is hardly seamless. built up a righteous steam of fury, now unleashes it against the Ivans of the world and salutes those toiling thanklessly in their employ."
  
  Sight and Sound named Anora the second-best film of 2024, and Film Comment named it one of the ten best. In 2025, Collider ranked the film at number 36 on its list of "The 40 Best Movies of the 2020s", with Jeremy Urquhart terming it "something of a modern classic". Anora was praised by many filmmakers and actors. In March 2025, IndieWire ranked it at number 46 on its list of "The 47 Best Romance Movies of the 21st Century," with Wilson Chapman calling it "exactly the type of love affair only he could write: funny, lewd, sexy, tempered by class and financial considerations, and ultimately quite tragic and brutally real."
  
  However, one commentator, Russian-Jewish screenwriter Mikhail Idov, found it difficult to reconcile support for the film, given the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine; he commented in the New York Times on February 27, 2025, "Its Oscar nominations, especially the best supporting actor one for Yura Borisov, have been touted by some as a national victory in Russia. Which puts me in the unsettling position of being in some truly terrible company in cheering for it."
  
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 336 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Another marvelous chronicle of America's strivers by writer-director Sean Baker given some extra pizzazz by Mikey Madison's brassy performance, Anora is a romantic drama on the bleeding edge." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 91 out of 100, based on 62 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 4.2 out of 5, based on 45 reviews, from French critics.
  
  Greta Gerwig, serving as the president of the 77th Cannes Film Festival Jury, commented that " was something we collectively felt we were transported by, we were moved by It felt both new and in conversation with older forms of cinema. There was something about it that reminded us of classic structures of Lubitsch or Howard Hawks, and then it did something completely truthful and unexpected."
  
  Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair wrote: " a wild, profane blast Even when Baker's storytelling and dialogue gets repetitive, Madison keeps things lively Still, a darkness thrums under the surface of all this flirting and bickering. Ani is forever yanked this way and that, degraded and disregarded I found myself torn between finding Baker's conclusions compassionate and sensing a vague whiff of something patronizing." Justin Chang of The New Yorker wrote: " Anora plays like a wild dream—first joyous, then catastrophic, and always fiercely unpredictable A contemporary return to screwball tradition is a welcome but challenging proposition, and Baker's play with the form is hardly seamless. built up a righteous steam of fury, now unleashes it against the Ivans of the world and salutes those toiling thanklessly in their employ."
  
  Sight and Sound named Anora the second-best film of 2024, and Film Comment named it one of the ten best. In 2025, Collider ranked the film at number 36 on its list of "The 40 Best Movies of the 2020s", with Jeremy Urquhart terming it "something of a modern classic". Anora was praised by many filmmakers and actors. In March 2025, IndieWire ranked it at number 46 on its list of "The 47 Best Romance Movies of the 21st Century," with Wilson Chapman calling it "exactly the type of love affair only he could write: funny, lewd, sexy, tempered by class and financial considerations, and ultimately quite tragic and brutally real."
  
  However, one commentator, Russian-Jewish screenwriter Mikhail Idov, found it difficult to reconcile support for the film, given the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine; he commented in the New York Times on February 27, 2025, "Its Oscar nominations, especially the best supporting actor one for Yura Borisov, have been touted by some as a national victory in Russia. Which puts me in the unsettling position of being in some truly terrible company in cheering for it."