Ana de Armas is in the spotlight—but can she outgun John Wick?

The title itself—From the World of John Wick: Ballerina—sounds like a crossover between a tiara-clad child fantasy and a gun-fu opera. But misdirection is the whole point.

- Samarth Goyal

Positioned neatly between John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum and Chapter 4, Ballerina follows Eve Macarro (Ana de Armas), a new assassin with pointe shoes and a vendetta. As a child, Eve witnesses her father's murder by cult leader Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne). She's whisked away to a ballet school/hitman factory overseen by the iron-willed Director (Anjelica Huston), where she learns about arabesques, handguns, and how to turn a pair of ice skates into weapons of mass destruction. Years later, she recognizes a symbol on a target and embarks on a revenge spree. What follows is a trail of carnage