I have one specific association with this movie. Actually, a memory.
I am somewhere like 12-14 years old, at a friend's country house. I went to bed already on 2nd floor of the house, same as him, but the all adults party is still going on down below. Too loud for me to easily fall asleep. At some point I hear how my friend's parents start arguing mostly covering the party sounds (but not completely). I don't remember specifics now, but there were accusations of husband cheating while on business trip. The crying went for what felt like several hours (maybe it did), and all of it seemed very stupid to my childish brain, because there was no real substance in the argument. I'd call it second hand embarrassment, but I did not feel that even, just annoyed and inability of people to talk things out properly.
Of course I had personal moments like this later, where I was one of the arguing, but this movie specifically reminded me of a moment when I was just a bystander. Since half the characters have Russian roots, it just reaffirmed the memory. If delivering that feeling was the movie's goal - it achieved it. But I do not think it was the goal.
To be honest, I am not sure what the goal was. But as a movie or as an art piece in general it was not that great. It was boring. Yes the atmosphere reminded me of some old(er) Russian movies like Брат, Курьер and others, they were obviously an inspiration. Those movies also had moments that felt like this, but they were moments not the whole movie. That made them more powerful.
If you ever had a domestic dispute, you know that some of them is just going back and forth. They can take up hours, while the core of the matter could have been resolved within 5 minutes. Similarly, Anora has lots of that unnecessary "fluff", while the actual story would have been maybe an hour long, probably less. If the characters were great, maybe it would be worth it, but to me they seemed like the representation of worse Russian-people qualities, nothing more. The "richness" of dialogs certainly helped. There were some objectively good moments, especially towards the ending, but each one of them was ruined seconds later. Not to mention, that this is also has a "comedy" tag, but I laughed maybe twice, and more at the absurdity of a scene, rather than at actual humor.
As such, I do not understand the praise some people give to this movie. It's just not that good. I wasted my time watching it.
