In post-Hunger Games mode, Jennifer Lawrence continues her streak of pushing the envelope. Even if her accent feels awkward at times, she is mostly convincing as a Slavic agent...

| Jul 26, 2023

Most of Red Sparrow looks slick and, somehow, doesn't overstay its welcome, even while being mostly forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2022

[Red Sparrow] looks good, has a strong lead performance, and it never becomes boring. But, it also lacks a lot of what audiences will probably want out of a movie like this.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2021

There are better examples of this kind of movie out there.

| Jul 20, 2021

A rare misstep from Jennifer Lawrence...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2021

Feels overlong as the twists and turns pile up like empty vodka bottles outside the Kremlin bar.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

On the surface, nearly none of it is clever, which is quite disappointing in a movie about espionage and duplicity and triple-crosses.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 7, 2020

...it's just a flat, disappointing thriller that doesn't really do anything but show off Lawrence's beautifully toned body.

| Nov 6, 2020

If "mother!" is up for the Razzies this weekend, there's a chance that "Red Sparrow" will do the same next year.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 29, 2020

The issue isn't the film's slow pace; it's its duration and lazy screenwriting that use violence and sex like a slap to the back of the head.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2020

The main pieces of Red Sparrow, but the lack of developing secondary parts keep the movie from being a complete spy movie.

| Jul 20, 2020

The trouble with Red Sparrow is that it doesn't realize it's a down and dirty sex thriller.

| Original Score: C | Jul 17, 2020

I guess I can say maybe see it once, mostly for Lawrence's performance and its intricate plot. I just don't know that I ever need to revisit the movie.

| Jul 7, 2020

"Red Sparrow" mistakes a slow pace for a slow burn. For a film that aims to be tense and thrilling, to keep the audience on a wire, there's little suspense.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 1, 2020

Lawrence is allowed to let her rich talents as an actor breathe life into a character that might have otherwise been played as shallow and far less interesting.

| Jun 2, 2020

This movie is dark.

| May 18, 2020

I really liked this movie.

| May 18, 2020

Red Sparrow is a dense, thoroughly adult espionage tale, the likes of which are rarely seen at the multiplex.

| Mar 20, 2020

Director Francis Lawrence... seems to have reasoned that, because Russian literature is so long and slow, making his movie long and slow would be the path to authenticity.

| Mar 9, 2020

This is not entertainment, especially when the drawn-out brutal scene goes on and on and on. Way too gross and unnecessary.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 30, 2020