‘Anora’: Wild Sex Worker Cinderella Story Just Dazzled Cannes

Sometimes it feels like an actor has just been waiting for their breakout moment: Mikey Madison just had hers at the Cannes Film Festival. She has been good for a long time in projects like Better Things, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Scream. (In both of the latter titles she, bizarrely, played a crazed villain who was ultimately lit on fire. She has a great scream.)

But she has never quite had a role like the title character in Sean Baker’s Anora, a twisted fairy...