Movie Review: "Red Sparrow" Is Degrading, Insipid And Painfully Boring (And Those Are The Good Parts)
RED SPARROW Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Mathhias Shoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Joely Richardson, Ciaran Hinds, Mary-Louise Parker and Jeremy Irons Based on the novel by Jason Matthews Screenplay by Justin Haythe Directed by Francis Lawrence Reviewed by Patrick & Paul Gibbs Jennifer Lawrence is a gifted and stunningly attractive actress who started out as an indie favorite and rocketed to super stardom, and Silver Linings Playbook is among my all time favorite films. But Lawrence stumbled badly with Passenger s, a film that was basically Titanic in Space but with more date rape, and she followed that by hooking up with Darren Aronofsky, whose film mother! got mixed responses from critics and dismal ones from audiences. She needs a comeback, and Red Sparrow , her big re-teaming with Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, is decidedly not it. Images Courtesy 20th Century Fox The story begins with Prima ballerina Dominika Egor