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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes review — a prequel done right

Read WTW's The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes review to find out how it turns out to be a worthwhile origin story.

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Review: A Hot But Forgettable Mess

The mouthful of a title is a good indicator of what you're in for: a too-long film that will leave you skipping bits in your head.

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director on making the prequel grittier than its predecessors

Music and mayhem as the Games get off to brutal beginnings…

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes review – A limp prequel that dilutes its biggest villain

This origin story for Donald Sutherland’s monstrous bad guy from the original films casts Rachel Zegler as a dystopian theatre-kid and squanders the anger of novelist Suzanne Collins’s source material

The Independent UK

The Most Anticipated Dystopian Thriller of the Year Fails to Justify Its Existence

Despite strong lead performances and an intriguing premise, the prequel to the Hunger Games can't effectively lure audiences back to Panem.

Inverse

The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Review: The Most Brutal Hunger Games Movie Yet, But It Can't Escape Some Textbook Prequel Traps

If you push the tired prequel tropes aside, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a triumphant comeback for The Hunger Games franchise that ups the stakes from the original films and dives deeper into the storytelling from a welcome new angle.

Cinemablend

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes review – back to an empty future

Prequel to the hit teen dystopia recruits Rachel Zegler and Jason Schwartzman to labour over IP that is now starved of inspiration

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Rachel Zegler Stunned At The Songbirds And Snakes Premiere In Dress Inspired By Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen

Katniss isn't in the Hunger Games prequels, but Rachel Zegler gave her a nod at the premiere of Songbirds and Snakes.

Cinemablend

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Has Screened, See Why People Are Saying The Prequel Is The Best Film In The Series

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has screened, and people are taking to social media with their first reactions.

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The Hunger Games Author Opens Up About Watching The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Despite Being 'Nervous' To See It

Suzanne Collins, who wrote the novel for Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, has seen the new movie.

Cinemablend

Hunger Games Producer Shares Blunt Thoughts On Potential Of Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen Return, And I Couldn’t Agree More

Could we see Katniss return to the Hunger Games on the big screen?

Cinemablend

Surprise! Olivia Rodrigo Is Following In Taylor Swift's Footsteps Once Again, This Time With A Hunger Games Song

Olivia Rodrigo announced she has written an original song for The Hunger Games prequel and it's coming soon.

Cinemablend

Netflix removes the Hunger Games movies, just weeks before the prequel movie is released

The franchise is no longer streaming on Netflix

Total Film

Top Democrat Mark Warner rips government shutdown: 'Nothing could be worse timing or more stupid than cutting off aid for Ukraine'

"I can't decide right now if we're seeing a playout of the Hunger Games or the battle of the Kens from the Barbie movie," Warner said about Congress.

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The Independent UK

Jennifer Lawrence hilariously shuts down rumour she will appear in The Hunger Games prequel

It had been suggested that the Oscar winner would appear as Katniss Everdeen’s grandmother

Daily Mirror

Jennifer Lawrence sets record straight about her kissing skills after brutal dig

The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen star Jennifer Lawrence used to eat garlic before kissing scenes with Liam Hemsworth, with her now insisting it wasn't intentional

Daily Mirror

Euphoria's Hunter Schafer steals the show in Hunger Games prequel trailer

Hunter Schafer stole the show and sent fans wild with her first appearance in the official trailer for the Hunger Games prequel A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Manchester Evening News

The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes gets first trailer

Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth star in the latest installment in the hit sci-fi franchise

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Cinemablend

The Hunger Games Is Back With Chilling Ballad Of Songbird And Snakes Trailer Featuring Peter Dinklage And Viola Davis

Lionsgate has finally unveiled the first look at the Hunger Games prequel and we have chills already.

Cinemablend

11 Thoughts I Had While Rewatching The Hunger Games Movies As An Adult

The Hunger Games movies are on Netflix and I needed to re-watch them -- and boy, did I have a lot of thoughts.

Inverse

The Best Dystopian Movie on Netflix Reveals a Dark Psychological Truth

Political psychologists explain how the battle royale death games help prop up a dictatorship in The Hunger Games.

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