A young girl who has lost everything sits alone in a hallway. A kindly stranger in a sharp fedora notices her and the ballerina snow globe in her hands—perhaps her only friend in the world. “Do you like to dance?” he asks. “I know a school where they teach dances.”

So goes an early scene in the gloriously titled From the World of John Wick: Ballerina , the new spinoff from the John Wick franchise (in case you couldn’t tell). It is also the first moment in the film that intersects the story of young Eve (Victoria Comte and then Ana de Armas ) to the larger franchise. After all, the man offering the orphan a lifeline is none other than Winston, the once and future proprietor of the Continental Hotel and the consummate gentleman played ever with a twinkle in his eye and a martini in hi

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