Robert W. Butler Butler's Cinema Scene May 2, 2024 B-

Anna is a guilty pleasure, delivering just enough cheese/sleaze to satisfy a viewer’s baser instincts but wrapping it all up in a clever storytelling style that keeps us on our toes and guessing.

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M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut Aug 20, 2022 2.5

Besson’s new film is an overly smug repackaging of his most acclaimed work, La Femme Nikita.

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Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Mar 2, 2022 1.5/4

Watching Anna, one imagines that director Luc Besson saw both Atomic Blonde (2017) and Red Sparrow (2018) and then decided to put his spin on the beautiful Russian spy movie.

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Ben Turner The Pink Lens Sep 1, 2021 4/5

An auteur tackling a genre movie with aplomb.

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Robin Holabird KUNR (Reno, NV) Jul 23, 2021

While director's approach and visuals remain energetic, his ideas now qualify as tired.

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Murtada Elfadl Mediaversity Reviews Apr 16, 2021 C-

Anna mines familiar stereotypes without adding anything new to the genre.

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Yasser Medina Cinefilia Jul 29, 2020 4/10

It's a dull, self-parodial espionage thriller in which clichés, hollow characters, and action sequences abound that put me in a state of absolute indifference. [Full review in Spanish]

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James Hanton Outtake Mag Jul 28, 2020 2 / 5

Any sense of empowerment in this female-led spy thriller is lost amidst a hanging fog of poor decisions and cardboard characters.

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Israel Acosta Aroche Konexión (MX) Oct 3, 2019 4.5/10

Luc Besson demonstrates [with Anna] that he has lost the ability to innovate and to surprise viewers. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Lucero Calderón Excelsior (MX) Sep 30, 2019

(Luc) Besson is one of the creative minds who plays with the viewers and that leads them through extreme situations through the mind of a woman. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Luis Fernando Galván En Filme Sep 30, 2019 2.5/5

The action starts to succumb to the director's insistence to introduce a series of flashbacks that become a repetitive strategy and that are detrimental to the story. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Allison Rose FlickDirect Sep 20, 2019 4/5

Anna is worth watching and if you are a Besson fan, you won't be disappointed.

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Hanna B Film Threat Sep 16, 2019 7.5/10

Anna is a project that makes viewers eager to know more about the protagonist's life before and maybe even after the events depicted.

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John Tones Espinof Sep 4, 2019 3.5/5

'Anna' winds up working as an authentic conversation starter. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Alberto Luchini El Mundo (Spain) Sep 1, 2019 1/5

Anna is a pastiche of Nikkita in a really bad way. [Full Review in Spanish]

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María Caballero Fotogramas Sep 1, 2019 5/5

The film's frenetic nature as well as its action hold the audience's interest. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Jordi Costa El Pais (Spain) Aug 31, 2019

This is like a strenuously long episode of 'Alias.' [Full Review in Spanish]

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Kiko Vega Espinof Aug 28, 2019 3.5/5

Luc Besson's new movie offers top-notch entertainment in a rocambolesque and very fun spy adventure that triumphs where others stagnate. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Marcos Gandía Sensacine Aug 27, 2019 3.5/5

A spectacular thriller. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Javier Cortijo Cinemanía (Spain) Aug 26, 2019 2/5

At times underestimates the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]

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