What is a Sprint Review?
The sprint review closes the sprint's product loop: the team demonstrates the working increment to stakeholders, gathers feedback, and the product owner updates the backlog accordingly. It's a working session about the product — not a slide deck, not a status meeting, and not the retrospective (which examines the process).
Exam pair to keep straight: review = inspect the product with stakeholders; retrospective = inspect the process within the team.
Worked example
At review, the logistics team demos live parcel-tracking to the ops director — who immediately asks why drivers can't reorder stops mid-route. That request enters the backlog near the top; two items below it quietly drop in priority. Fifteen minutes of watching a real user beat a quarter of requirements workshops.