Red Sparrow

Seductive. Deceptive. Deadly.


Red Sparrow
A young Russian intelligence officer is assigned to seduce a first-tour CIA agent who handles the CIA’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young officers collide in a charged atmosphere of trade-craft, deception, and inevitably forbidden passion that threatens not just their lives but the lives of others as well. This film is releasing in 2D and IMAX. This is the 2D version.

139 minutes.
No Persons under 18 (Nudity, Sex, Violence, Sexual Violence).
Detective/Mystery, Thriller.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast
Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, CiarĂ¡n Hinds Ciarán Hinds, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, Joely Richardson
Director
Francis Lawrence
ScreenplayJustin Haythe. from the novel by Jason Matthews
MusicJames Newton Howard
CinematographyJo Willems
EditingAlan Edward Bell
Sound formatsDolby Atmos
Made in2018
Produced byChernin Entertainment, Film Rites, Soundtrack New York

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

GenreThriller
LanguageInfrequent, moderate impact.
NudityFairly frequent, moderate impact (the scenes are in both sexual and non-sexual context, eg a scene of a male character's frontal shot with his genitalia is noted).
SexNone (sic)
ViolenceFrequent, strong to very strong impact (gratuitous and graphic scenes of violence. The violence scenes are also physical and psychological.)
PrejudiceNone
BlasphemyNone
Drug abuseNone
CommentsThe material contains complex and mature themes presented in a thriller context, interrogating issues of spying, dancing, duplicity, espionage, deception, gaining valuable information, family relations, corruption, investigations, betrayal, revenge, sacrifice, manipulation, trust, intelligence, power and control. The thriller is laced with a strong sense of threat and menace. Sustained themes of suspense and mystery are filled with tense psychological tones. The themes also have the potential to inflict harm morally and emotionally, therefore they would be disturbing, distressing and confusing to the younger viewers as they do not yet have the ability of masking sense of such themes on their own. e.g. Themes such as sexual manipulation would be prematurely exposing children to adult experiences and negatively influence their attitudes and behaviour by morally misleading them. Therefore, viewers under the age of 18 are prohibited from viewing the material.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

USA MPAA rating

R: RestrictedRated R for strong violence, torture, sexual content, language and some graphic nudity
Runtime139
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity
5
Violence
5
Blood / Gore / Gross
5
Guns / Weapons
5
Profanity
5
Alcohol / Drugs
4
Smoking
5
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude
5
Imitative Behaviour
5
Frightening / Tense Scenes
5
Jump Scenes
2
Tense Family Scenes
4
Music (Scary/Tense)
5
Music (Inappropriate)
0
Topics to talk about
4

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit
17 +
Positive messages
0
Positive role models
2
Violence
5
Sex
5
Language
4
Consumerism
0
Drinking, drugs, smoking
2

Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

Cape Argus / The Star
Jamal-Dean Grootboom quote icon'Red Sparrow' makes messy hotbed.
5
24.com
Ilan Preskovsky quote iconDespite its mainstream marketing, Red Sparrow is more or less an arthouse film and is all but guaranteed to turn off anyone simply looking for an entertaining spy flick. Personally, I was pleasantly surprised by how gripping I found it, how audacious it was at times and how, days later, it continues to linger with me.
15
Metacritic.com
45 critics
11
Rottentomatoes critics
169 critics
11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer
Tomatometer quote iconRed Sparrow's tense, character-driven story -- elevated by outstanding work from Jennifer Lawrence -- help this topical spy thriller overcome its somewhat uneven narrative.
10
Movie Review Query Engine
MRQE critics quote icon
10
CommonSenseMedia
Jeffrey M. Anderson quote iconGraphic violence, sex in dull Jennifer Lawrence thriller.
5

What the People say

Metacritic.com users
43 users
13
Rottentomatoes users
3479 users
12
IMDB
7475 Netizens
13
The Movie DB
Community
13

Average .. 54%

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