Sean Baker's Anora is not just an outstanding film on its own merits, but also contains a reference to Baker's previous film — a Red Rocket easter egg that reveals the fate of Strawberry, the aspiring ...

Rex’s Mikey is a former porn star who returns to his wife Lexi (the excellent Bree Elrod) in a small Texas town as the film opens. Lexi and her mother (Brenda Deiss) don’t want Mikey around but when ...

When Mikey Saber (Simon Rex) arrives in Texas in the opening moments of Red Rocket, he’s immediately ordered to leave. “You said you weren’t gonna step your foot in Texas again!” his estranged wife ...

This review was first published July 14, after its premiere at Cannes. “Red Rocket” both advances and further clarifies what has become director Sean Baker’s signature hook, marking a now four-strong ...

Some movie scenes become enshrined in the history of Cinema — with a capital C — the moment they hit the screen. It is also the apotheosis of Mikey Saber, a washed-up adult film star desperate for a ...

Sean Baker used to be the indie world’s best-kept secret, until 2017’s The Florida Project—a study of a struggling single mom in the shadow of Disney World—took the director first to Cannes and later ...

Sean Baker tells stories with the painstaking care of a documentarian. His previous award-winning films have followed the child of a struggling single mother living on the edge of Disney World ("The ...

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'Red Rocket' is a masterful piece of independent filmmaking. It's a non-stop roller coaster ride with an unforgettable performance from Simon Rex. This is one of the year's best movies. Mikey (Rex) is ...