Attention all action film fans! Run, don’t walk, to the nearest movie theater to see From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. Then set aside some time a day or two later to go see it again. This is one for the ages.
Ana de Armas, who’s been a star waiting for the right vehicle ever since Knives Out brought her to widespread attention in 2019, has now got a film franchise worthy of her. The fascination of Ballerina is established early on — how can a small, slight, delicate-looking young woman such as de Armas’s character, Eve Macarro, trained in ballet, become an unbeatable killing machine à la John Wick, so she can avenge her murdered parents?
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