An impressive Jennifer Lawrence plays a ballerina-turned-spy in must-see espionage thriller, Red Sparrow

Arriving hot on the heels of last year’s <>, it appears that Hollywood is finally beginning to harness the awesome power of the female-led action movie, and in terms of formidable, whip-smart screen heroines, Red Sparrow won’t disappoint.

After an injury suddenly ends her career and her mum falls ill, Russian ballerina Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is faced with a dilemma: let her mother suffer, or become a secret intelligence agent in return for medical care. Egorova soon finds herself a new recruit at ‘Sparrow School’, where she’s moulded into a lethal weapon of manipulation and seduction for the KGB.

Training is dehumanising and sadistic, yet Egorova graduates as the most dangerous Sparrow ever produced. This new-found power comes at a harsh price, however: she is changed irrevocably and must battle to assert her own will in this shadowy, undercover world. It’s only when her first target – a CIA spook played by Joel Edgerton – tries to recruit her as a double agent that she understands what this entails.

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