The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Lionsgate | Release Date: November 17, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 53 Critic Reviews
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26
Mixed:
19
Negative:
8
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38
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 15, 2023
No tolerable climax is complete without a clock-watching anti-climax that so stretches things out that you start to discount the fabulous production design, the pointed parable about America’s rural vs. urban schism and how much fun Jason Schwartzman, in the Elizabeth Banks role, is having with all this. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonNov 14, 2023
Even if you’ve only seen one of these films, you won’t need to spend 156 minutes witnessing the rise of a madman whose actions never required any backstory in the first place. Read full review
35
CNNBrian LowryNov 16, 2023
Splitting the movie into three chapters seems appropriate, since the film delivers a trifecta: overwrought, overacted, and overlong. Read full review
30
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsNov 16, 2023
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes outstays its welcome big time – a serviceable B-movie which replays the series’ inherently-quite-exciting fight-to-the-death storyline, but then inelegantly bolts on an extra hour of vapid soul searching and lore expansion that made this viewer want to bludgeon himself with his own keep cup. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyNov 9, 2023
The contestants just lack dimension. And Lawrence’s journeyman handling of the more character-driven drama provides sputtering momentum at best. Read full review
30
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeNov 9, 2023
It’s the absence of Lawrence — or at least of any young performer matching her charisma — that’s a key part of the problem here. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithNov 16, 2023
This more than 2 1/2 hour film would rank as one of Hollywood’s sleepiest fantasy blockbusters of the century even without the pointless musical interludes, of which there are at least half a dozen. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawNov 9, 2023
This movie finally ties itself into various knots to prefigure the later world of Katniss, but the time to end the Games came long ago. Read full review
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