Jennifer Lawrence used to be on top of the world.
She won an Oscar, and has been praised for basically everything she was ever in… until recently.
“Mother!” was a freaking sh*tshow…and now people aren’t taking too kindly to her newest film.
Jennifer Lawrence is an Oscar-winning star with an impressive track record, earning critical praise and big returns at the box office for every movie she has appeared in since her breakthrough role in the 2010 film Winter’s Bone.
Sadly, that streak appears to now be coming to an end. After her polarizing turn in last year’s Mother!, the actress’ latest movie Red Sparrow is getting trounced by critics.
In a link to her review posted on Twitter, Village Voice critic April Wolfe described the movie by stating: ‘In short, Jennifer Lawrence goes to wh**e school and learns to get naked and pick locks.’

She later amended that tweet by explaining: ‘I should have put quotes around “wh**e school,” because those are the movie’s words, not mine.’
Wolfe’s actual review meanwhile says that the film ‘seems to be about the desperate quest to get one sexy woman very naked.’
HA!
So… is newly-political Lawrence going to hold herself accountable and say that she CHOSE to reveal her body because it pays millions and furthers her fame?
Or is she going to #MeToo herself out of this one?
Was she “bullied” into feeding the patriarchy’s gaze? Or is it “empowering” to use her body to further her acting career (and fortune.)
Eventually, Feminists may have to choose one, don’t you think?
‘[T]here’s little to recommend Red Sparrow – a throwback to old Hollywood in its belief that gratuitous rape and violence are the best way to create a heroine with backbone,’ writes Sara Stewart in her review for the New York Post.
She sums up her feelings on the film by saying it ‘resembles countless bad sexploitation flicks.’
Stewart and many other critics did manage to find one bright spot in the film, praising an ‘amusing turn’ from Tony and Emmy-winning actress Mary Louise Parker, who appears in a brief cameo.
‘Unsure this 150-minute movie serves any purpose at all other than to male gaze the s*** out of Jennifer Lawrence,’ critic Laurence Barber wrote on Twitter after a screening of the movie.
‘A turgid, desperate-to-be-edgy bore that gives you nothing to grab onto other than the brief blessing of Mary-Louise Parker’s drunk-acting.’
To be clear… I couldn’t give any less of a crap about any of this. You want to get naked in a movie? Whatever. Fine.
You want to get naked in a movie that obviously caters to dudes that want to see you naked in a movie? Whatever. Fine.
BUT… the fact that Hollywood pushed this movie out while simultaneously yelling about men exploiting women’s bodies and the patriarchy and #MeToo and #TimesUp and blah blah blah just seems wildly disingenuous, don’t you think?
This movie will make millions….off of Jennifer “Democracy Fixer” Lawrence’s naked body.
Will they be using the millions and millions of dollars made from this crapshow to further their #MeToo cause?
Nah.