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Anna

2019

Luc Besson

Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren, Luke Evans, Cillian Murphy ...

5.8

5,672

Action. Thriller Beneath Anna Poliatova’s striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world’s most feared government assassins.

	Media	Author	Review
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A lifeless and instantly forgettable spy flick whose lead, Sasha Luss (...) shows zero promise as a movie star. "
		Peter Debruge Variety	"It’s nowhere near the embarrassment of Brian De Palma’s 'Domino' (...) Nor is it fresh enough to pretend that audiences had missed out on something special if it had been buried altogether"
		Bilge Ebiri The New York Times	"[It] isn’t as stylish or gripping as 'Nikita', but it does have its own demented charm, particularly in how it toys with structure, nesting competing narrative timelines within each other.
		Peter Sobczynski rogerebert.com	"Even long-standing fans of his will find it hard to muster much enthusiasm for this startlingly lazy bit of by-the-numbers hackwork (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Noel Murray Los Angeles Times	"On its own merits, this is one rollickingly entertaining film (...) But given everything that’s been going on, 'Anna'’s underlying themes just don’t resonate as they’re meant to"
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"The action scenes (...) are derivative. The sex is awkwardly un-erotic. The twists are predictable (...) [It] is more invested in winking at the audience than being fun."
		Peter Howell Toronto Star	"Dark humour ripples through Besson’s jigsaw screenplay (...) [It] always looks and sounds great, even as it defies all logic (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"Despite constantly playing fast and loose with the chronology (...) he delivers a sleek, largely efficient mechanism of adrenaline-soaked déjà vu (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'Anna' has nothing more on its mind than the voyeuristic pleasures of watching a model waste a couple hundred cronies with a pistol"
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Luc Besson's empty assassin thriller shoots blanks (...) A plot that feels patchworked together from better films (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"There is no subtext, no tension; at no point will you worry that Anna might be caught or killed (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"

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