Ana de Armas plays the titular seething danseuse, whose pursuit of revenge traces all the way back to her tragic youth. In the opening sequence, Eve sees her father murdered by a cabal of fighters ...

Ballerina review: Ana de Armas fights her way to an entertaining action flick. Michael Balderston. Wed, June 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM UTC. 4 min read.

“Ballerina” brings the focus back to something human. Hackneyed, but human. Ana de Armas stars as Eve, who watched the evil Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne) kill her father when she was a child.

Ana de Armas proves her action-hero mettle and makes herself as essential to "John Wick" as Keanu Reeves himself in her stellar spinoff "Ballerina." ...

Eve (Ana de Armas) goes on a hunt for her father’s killer in “Ballerina.” ©Lions Gate/Courtesy Everett Collection As a boring adult, Eve learns to pirouette and execute. “Fight like a ...

This image released by Lionsgate shows Ana de Armas in a scene from "Ballerina." Credit: AP/Larry D. Horricks Soon, now-orphaned Eve is approached by Winston (Ian McShane, returning) owner of the ...

In the "John Wick" spinoff "Ballerina" Ana de Armas as Eve meets Keanu Reeves as fugitive Wick. (Lionsgate) Eve’s taken under the protection of Wick’s sometime-affiliates, the Ruska Roma.

And so “Ballerina” halfheartedly pivots into a story that kinda sorta weighs family against fate, and — better yet — transitions into a movie where Ana De Armas smashes the same woman over ...

Movie review: Ana de Armas is better at killing than ballet in ‘Ballerina,’ a John Wick spinoff Ian McShane and Anjelica Huston return, and Gabriel Byrne is a chilly new villain.