On paper, “Red Sparrow,” a spy movie based on a book by the same name, written by a former CIA operative seems to have all the ingredients of a blockbuster staple. Unfortunately, the film’s ...

Movies like Red Sparrow bring the same stylish suspenseful tension as the 2018 Jennifer Lawrence spy thriller. Jennifer Lawrence stars in Red Sparrow as a Russian ballerina-turned-spy, and the blend ...

Just kidding. It’s a spy thriller, and not much more than that. “Red Sparrow” is vicious and, at points, fun. But the movie lacks the self-aware camp it would take to make this movie truly ...

Billed as a spy thriller believed to be in the mould of other female-led spy thrillers like last year's Atomic Blonde or Salt (2010), Sparrow pushes the boundaries of what spy movies have been for the ...

Jason Matthews, a 33-year veteran of the spy agency, says that the job isn't all car chases and poisoned darts — and notes his novel is as timely as ever: "We’re now in the midst of a second Cold War.