Ballerina has garnered mostly positive reviews from critics and a pretty good Rotten Tomatoes score, though it’s not as remarkable as some of the other entries in the John Wick franchise. The movie premieres in U.S. theaters on Friday, June 6, 2025, and follows Ana de Armas’ Eve Macarro, a ballerina who starts training as an assassin in pursuit of revenge.
John Wick spin-off Ballerina gets largely positive reviews
Jonathan Sim of ComingSoon gave Ballerina a nine out of 10 rating and noted that it was “yet another fantastic installment in this series.” Sim praised the movie’s action sequences, adding that it fleshes out the “sliver of a world we saw in John Wick 3, when Wick goes to the ballet to get help from The Director (Anjelica Huston), who ran the crime syndicate The Ruska Roma.”
Screen Rant’s Rachel LaBonte observed that while Ballerina might not have lived up to the “high standards set by the previous movies,” the reviewer did have “a good time watching it.”
According to Brian Truitt of USA Today, “There’s no need to yearn for a female 007 or a woman Wick anymore – just hope for another film that’s all about Eve.”
TheWrap’s William Bibbiani criticized Ballerina by writing that it was a “cluttered mess with a boring storyline.” However, Bibbiani added that the action was “amazing” in the movie and that “there’s a genuine sense of humor to all its weird duels to the death.”
How Ballerina’s Rotten Tomatoes score compares to John Wick franchise
- John Wick (2014) has an 86% approval rating on the review aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes after 225 reviews.
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) has an approval rating of 89% after 283 reviews.
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) has also garnered an 89% rating after 357 reviews.
- John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) has a 94% approval rating after 383 reviews.
- The Continental, which originally streamed on Peacock in 2023, has a 63% approval rating for its first and only season.
- As for Ballerina (2025), it currently has a 78% approval rating after 80 reviews. That number will likely change after the movie premieres and more reviews are submitted.
