The new ballerina action movie Pretty Lethal—which began streaming on Amazon Prime Video today, free to subscribers—is worth the watch for one undeniably kick-ass scene: Maddie Ziegler straight-up murdering a dude with a razor-blade-armed pirouette. I never knew I needed that in my life, but now I could never live without it.
Directed by Vicky Jewson (who also directed the 2019 Netflix action flick Close), with a screenplay written by Kate Freund, Pretty Lethal first premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival earlier this this month. The film stars Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Millicent Simmonds, and Avantika as ballerinas whose bus breaks down on their way to a high-profile competition in Budapest. Luckily, they stumble upon a nearby hotel.
Unluckily, the hotel is run by the Budapest mafia, and one of the gangsters murders their dance instructor (Lydia Leonard) after
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