Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: What starts out as a potentially good espionage story soon collapses into tedium, done in by its own pretentiousness.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Francis Lawrence’s visual style, in which large scale imagery of saturation and balance are presented with rigorous control, has yet to lose its potency; in another Dragon Tattoo comparison, he’s like a Grand Guignol David Fincher.
- Francisco Cangiano @ CineXpress [Spanish]
- Matt Donato @ Flickering Myth
- Excerpt: Red Sparrow was marketed as some KGB Kingsman flick with Atomic Blonde undertones – or, even better, a snipe on Marvel’s Black Widow plans – but it’s none of the above (quite assertively).
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Nguyen Le @ InSession Film
- Excerpt: Once again, it’s the direction that offsets writer Justin Haythe’s confusion of bloat for world-building.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Red Sparrow’ mistakes a slow pace for a slow burn.
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Kristy Puchko @ Pajiba.com
- Excerpt: This spy adventure is not a power fantasy for women, but a sexual fantasy for men who like to think they’re feminist. (Spoilers: they aren’t, and neither is Red Sparrow.)
- James Roberts @ Glide Magazine
- Excerpt: While Red Sparrow doesn’t quite live up to its own aspirations, that fact never prevents the movie from being enjoyable, even if it is, at its best, still just a spy movie. It’s a perfectly fine spy movie, to be sure, full of twists, turns, and edge of your seat excitement, but that’s all it ever is.
- Robert Yaniz Jr. @ Monkeys Fighting Robots
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