Should you watch Red Sparrow?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Red Sparrow
Film · 2018
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. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
The sides of Red Sparrow
- A Bolshoi ballerina whose career ends on stage
- A school that trains spies in seduction
- A CIA agent in Budapest
Red Sparrow is good for you if…
- you like a spy game where nobody can be trusted.
- you like Jennifer Lawrence cold and unreadable as Dominika.
- you like a story about a state that turns young people into weapons.
Red Sparrow is bad for you if…
- you can't stand torture scenes.
- you'd rather not watch sex scenes, or you watch with others.
- you can't watch sexual abuse on screen.
About: manipulation · loyalty · survival
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