You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of Red Sparrow.

Hello, Mama. What is it? I have to go away for a while.

I was told to take a man to a hotel. I said he was an enemy of the state.

Take off your dress.

And then exchange, my mother would get the doctor she needed.

Instead, they cut his throat.

There could be no witnesses.

So they gave me a choice.

Die or become a sparrow.

From this day forward, you will become sparrows.

Weapons in a global struggle for power.

You'll be trained in psychological manipulation. You must learn to push

yourself beyond all limitation. Take off your clothes. When we are finished with you,

the person you will no longer exist. Every human being is a puzzle of need.

You must become the missing piece and they will tell you anything.

You have a gift. You know how to survive?

This is what you were meant to do.

There is a traitor in the government?

His last known contact is an American.

Get close to him.

I thought I saw you in the pool yesterday.

Are we going to become friends?

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