![]() ![]() Regardless, this bloody, sexual thriller will target adults, which could help it as counterprogramming to the family-friendly A Wrinkle In Time.Īfter a promising career as a ballerina is cut short due to a devastating injury, Russian dancer Dominika (Lawrence) must find another way to provide for her ailing mother - prompting her mysterious uncle (Matthias Schoenaerts) to trick her into becoming a recruit for a top-secret training program for elite spies. Hitting UK cinemas on March 1 before arriving in the US the following day, Fox’s action offering will benefit from its star’s box office track record, although the commercial disappointment of last year’s Mother! ($45 million worldwide) may have dimmed her popularity slightly. Jennifer Lawrence is enjoyably chilly as an alluring spy who is talented at reading people and seducing her male targets, but this adaptation of the 2013 Jason Matthews novel starts to sputter over its extended runtime, coming across as a rehash of Ian Fleming/John Le Carre intrigue without those authors’ crackling characters or pungent worldviews.ĭirector Francis Lawrence has crafted the cinematic equivalent of a pulpy airport novel ![]() Trying to split the difference between trashy and classy, Red Sparrow is a sleek, juiced-up espionage thriller that overdoes everything: its brutal violence, its dramatic flourishes, its hairpin plot twists, and most certainly its sexpot shamelessness. ![]()
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