Red Sparrow: Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling. Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova turns dangerous Sparrow.
Jennifer Lawrence's new action movie Red Sparrow wants to be edgy and feminist, but is ultimately hollow and sexist.
While novelist Jason Matthews, a former Central Intelligence Agency operative, came up with the title Red Sparrow, it’s director Francis Lawrence who seems to be taking the most joy in connecting the “social” interactions and carnivorous aspects of the bird to the lead of the story.There ...
No, this movie is not too long. No, it isn't confusing.Red Sparrow is almost perfectly developing the character of the protagonist, in an extreme but not unrealistic plot. There constantly is drama, conflict and (potential) betrayal.This was a wonderful experience, which you should celebrate...
Francis Lawrence,Chris O'Hara Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Domini...
Their romance is the first of many problems with “Red Sparrow,” which attempts to be a more realistic – or certainly more severe – take on thrillers like “La Femme Nikita” or “Salt” or even “Hanna” (and to a lesser degree, the sillier action movies “Haywire” and “Atomic ...
I have plenty of reservations as far as it pertains toRed Sparrow, not the least of which being that scene of sexual desecration and blood-splattered mental abuse that closes out the first act and helps send the former ballerina on a one-way path to a place often referred to as “whore...
“sparrow”—an operative trained in seduction tactics to obtain information for the Russian government. Along with a class of fellow sparrows, she’s instructed by Charlotte Rampling, the chilly Matron, to “inure yourself to what you find repellent” and learn to “love on command.” Dominika...
Also in attendance was the movie’s director, Francis Lawrence. On why he decided to take on Red Sparrow, he explained, “I fell in love with the character Dominika. I am very attracted to lonely characters and isolated journeys. I also love survival stories, and though the spy genre is...
Jacob Shamsian