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Red Sparrow

2018

Francis Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons, Charlotte Rampling ...

6.4

23,361

Thriller A young Russian intelligence officer is assigned to seduce a first-tour CIA agent (Joel Edgerton) who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young officers, collide in a charged atmosphere of trade-craft, deception and inevitably forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but of others as well. Young Dominika Egorova is many things. A devoted daughter determined to protect her mother at ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Elegantly tense and absorbing (...) Jennifer Lawrence, in this movie, shows you what true screen stardom is all about."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Jennifer Lawrence is a Badass Russian Spy Who Uses Her Sexuality Like a Weapon in Solid Thriller. (...) Francis Lawrence's moody espionage tale wouldn't look out of place on 'The Americans'."	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A pervy premise and top-flight cast yield a mixed-bag spy flick. (...) 'Sparrow' seems likely to attract a fairly large audience but leave few moviegoers fully satisfied."	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"[A] Silly Spy Tale. (...) Neither intelligent enough to be involving nor fun enough to be trashy, this is a movie that would only work if it were a little worse or a lot better."	NEG
United States	Matt Singer Screen Crush	"Despite a twisty storyline, a great cast, and two physically compatible leads, Red Sparrow never quite gets beyond being a merely okay thriller."	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly Time Out	"A punishing thriller that never quite takes wing. (...) Bleak, excessively long (...) 'Red Sparrow' ultimately plays a lot simpler than it initially suggests (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"A lavishly costumed, location-enhanced thriller, Red Sparrow carries itself along briskly enough, but it's never especially brain-twisting or nerve-wracking. (...) It approaches the material (a novel by former CIA officer Jason Matthews) with methodical professionalism, aimed at adult moviegoers."	NEU
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"It’s totally fine in a forgettable sort of way. The problem is it just doesn’t add up to the sum of its promising parts"	NEU
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"More dull than egregious (...) The film lacks a stickiness to keep one sweetly engrossed and leaves the viewer with little more than a flavorless shrug."	NEG
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"It doesn’t entirely work, but there’s something about its full-throttle nastiness that lingers, and it’s refreshing to see something that exists in the studio system that possesses so many queasily perverse elements. (...) refreshing, but not quite as seductive as it thinks it is. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Christopher Hooton The Independent	"[It] seems to exist for little purpose other than to show [Jennifer Lawrence] naked in as many ways as contractually obligable (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Rosie Fletcher Digital Spy	"We're really not sure who this movie is meant to be for (...) [A] good-looking, well performed, somewhat worthy espionage thriller (...) It's too long and lacking in focus (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Red Sparrow' is a sleek, juiced-up espionage thriller that overdoes everything (...) Director Francis Lawrence has crafted the cinematic equivalent of a pulpy airport novel"	NEU

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