Red Sparrow vs The Lightest Darkness

The Lightest Darkness has the higher audience score (8.7/10 against 6.5/10 for Red Sparrow). The Lightest Darkness is the shorter watch at 1h 23m compared with 2h 20m. The Lightest Darkness is the older of the two (2017 against 2018). Both are mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Red Sparrow posterRed Sparrow2018 VS The Lightest Darkness posterThe Lightest Darkness2017
Red SparrowThe Lightest Darkness
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 8.7/10
Year20182017
Length2h 20m1h 23m
GenresMystery, ThrillerMystery, Thriller
Country–Russia
DirectorFrancis LawrenceDiana Galimzyanova
Main castJoel Edgerton, Joely Richardson, Bill Camp, Thekla Reuten, Mary-Louise ParkerKolya Neukoelln, Rashid Aitouganov, Vyacheslav Manucharov, Alexander Rapoport, Ekaterina Dar

Synopsis

Red Sparrow

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince…

The Lightest Darkness

When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.

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