When it comes to heart-pounding, brain-spinning films, the Safdie brothers usually have us covered. Take Good Time, in which a bank robber does everything he can to free his mentally ill brother from prison. Or Uncut Gems, the story of a gambling addict who makes a particularly risky bet to stay afloat. Though the stakes in Sean Baker’s movies are just as high—The Florida Project, for example, tells the story of a woman who turns to prostitution to support herself and her daughter—the pace is often slower. Until now. Baker’s latest film, Anora, unravels like a fever dream. Mikey Madison brilliantly plays the protagonist, a New York sex worker who spontaneously marries one of her clients, the son of a Russian oligarch. When her new husband’s father gets wind of the marriage, he sends three men to have it annulled—and to get Anora out of the picture. Things don’t go as planned in this tour de force, which won the Palme d’Or this year. —Jeanne Malle