When the film industry was conquered by an unholy combination of the streaming services and the superhero machine , Hollywood stopped making movie stars. Studio publicists have been reduced to desperately, and unconvincingly, hyping up little-known Gen-Z performers as the next Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts.

But such naked attempts seem particularly bizarre in the case of Ana de Armas, a serviceable actress and erstwhile Bond girl whose mediocre career doesn’t remotely warrant the surrounding hysteria.

That won’t change this week as her action movie Ballerina, a spin-off from the Keanu Reeves-led John Wick franchise, limps miserably onto screens. In his one-star review , the Telegraph’s Tim Robey describes her trainee assassin character as “lethally dull” and laments that de Armas “si

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