Finally, after many years, the audience gets to enjoy a refreshing return to a decent and exciting psychological espionage thriller instead of the typical action spy thriller. Over the last decade, action espionage has taken up most of the spy genre movies including Enemy of the State (1998); Bourne Identity (2002); Expendables (2010); Haywire (2011); Colombiana (2011); Hanna (2011); November Man (2014); Survivor (2015); The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015); Hitman 47 (2015); The Assignment (2016); and Atomic Blonde (2017). To a lesser extent, there have been more off-beat, lighter espionage fare including Wild Target (2010); Daisy & Violet (2011); Miss Meadows (2014); American Ultra (2015); American Assassin (2017). But perhaps not since Robert Redford and Brad Pitt in Spy Game (2001) has there been released on the big screen a thoughtful and intelligent espionage movie as Red Sparrow. Even though the beginning development of the movie doesn't quite match up to the French classic La Femme Nikita (1990) or the American version Point of No Return (1993) with Bridget Fonda and Gabriel Bryne, Red Sparrow gets stronger and stronger with psychological intensity in the fashion of The Ipcress File (1965) with Michael Caine; The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1965) with Richard Burton; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) with Sir Alec Guinness based on the writings of the spy writer extraordinaire John le Carre; The Russia House (1990) with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. The cat and mouse game is superbly offered up in Red Sparrow with a great screenplay along with a very satisfying and acceptable resolution with fine performances by Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton.