Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Hunger Games Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 91

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  A muscular, honorable, unflinching translation of Collins' vision. It's brutal where it needs to be, particularly when children fight and bleed.

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• 75

  out of 100

  USA TodayScott Bowles

  The action is brisk, the acting is solid, and barring an unlikely failure at the box office, a franchise is born. Let the games begin.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy

  As she did in her breakthrough film Winter's Bone, Jennifer Lawrence anchors this futuristic and politicized elaboration of The Most Dangerous Game with impressive gravity and presence, while director Gary Ross gets enough of what matters in the book up on the screen to satisfy its legions of fans worldwide.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  In The Hunger Games it's both a feast of cheesy spectacle and a famine of genuine feeling, except for the powerful - and touchingly vulnerable - presence of Jennifer Lawrence.

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