Jennifer Lawrence gives a star performance as a spy driven by survival in an espionage thriller that’s (gratifyingly) more talk than action.
In pumped-up espionage potboilers like “Salt” or “Atomic Blonde,” Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron have gone through the motions of imitating male action stars at their most kick-ass grandiose. They’re slickly “empowered” women, yet it’s hard to distinguish that power from the thriller-video decadence of 21st-century action filmmaking. In the elegantly tense and absorbing “Red […]
