girl fight

Watching Charlize Theron comprehensively fuck people up is a joyful thing. (See also: Mad Max: Fury Road, The Old Guard et al.) When she’s doing it in objectively awesome fashions, accompanied by an ’80s synth soundtrack, it becomes transcendent. In a nod to every action film that starts with the hero’s girlfriend dying, here Theron plays Lorraine, a spy on a revenge mission for her dead boyfriend in crumbling Cold War Berlin. The Wall is about to come down, pretty much everyone is a spy, and her only declared ally (James McAvoy) turns out to be a bit of a dick. Lorraine is hurting, and she doesn’t have time for bullshit. She does, however, have