The Hunger Games

Movie • 2012


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    Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.


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Roger Ebert

"The Hunger Games" is an effective entertainment, and Jennifer Lawrence is strong and convincing in the central role.

rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hunger-games-2012

The Guardian

The Hunger Games is a very enjoyable futurist adventure, presented with a compelling, beady-eyed intensity.

theguardian.com/film/2012/mar/22/the-hunger-games-review

Common Sense Media

This movie shows us the horrific violence that ensues when you dehumanize people.

commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-hunger-games

Hollywood Reporter

Jennifer Lawrence anchors this futuristic and politicized elaboration of The Most Dangerous Game with impressive gravity and presence.

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/hunger-games-film-review-300825/

EW

This Hunger Games is a muscular, honorable, unflinching translation of Collins’ vision.

ew.com/article/2012/04/03/hunger-games-movie-review/

Slate

The film’s producers nailed it in picking Jennifer Lawrence, who’s appeared memorably in X-Men: First Class and The Beaver since her career-making performance in the bleak Ozark fairy tale Winter’s Bone (2010.)

slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2012/03/the_hunger_games_starring_jennifer_lawrence_as_katniss_everdeen_reviewed_.html

Vulture

Maybe the true horror is how easily the movie goes down.

vulture.com/2012/03/movie-review-the-hunger-games.html

The Critical Movie Critics

Top-notch acting, especially from Lawrence, Tucci, Banks and Harrelson, and surprisingly by Hutcherson and Kravitz, lift this adaptation over similar films.

thecriticalcritics.com/reviews/movie_review-the_hunger_games/