Anora | NYFF 2024
By Kent Turner October 17, 2024
If directing is 90% casting, then that is the main reason why Anora remains engaging through its ups and downs.
If directing is 90% casting, then that is the main reason why Anora remains engaging through its ups and downs.
A tender, occasionally aching film, with an appealing cast and pretty locations.
Adam Schimberg’s atmospheric film is a winding ride, peppered with black comedy and ambiguity.
The comedy’s title refers to the psychological and emotional state of its characters during a pandemic. (Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?)
If you really want to punish David Zaslav for shelving Coyote vs. Acme, you’ll seek out Hundreds of Beavers wherever it’s playing.
A unique dark comedy by a rising filmmaker, starring a performer who regularly defies expectations.
Alexander Payne immediately creates a cocoon of detailed, vintage atmosphere in his latest 1970 end-of-year holidays-set movie.
First time director Cord Jefferson accomplishes quite a balancing act. He has made a family drama and, more pungently and winningly, a satire aimed at an adult audience.
Owen Wilson stars as a Bob Ross–inspired painter in this comedy, which is at its best when it embraces absurdity.