The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023 · Film · 2h 37m

Science Fiction, Action

6.8 average

A long, handsome dystopian origin story that slowly curdles from doomed romance into cold-blooded villain birth.

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What it is

Decades before Panem’s familiar tyranny, a determined young man from a fallen Capitol family is assigned to mentor a singer from District 12 in the early Hunger Games. As he helps shape her public image and chances of survival, ambition, loyalty, and distrust begin pulling them in dangerous directions.

The feel

Not remotely funny·An invented world·Bleak·Big-screen spectacle

Heads up

13+

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