Fresh
This is Empire Strikes Back stuff. It has that second Star Wars movie's kick of confidence.
Wesley Morris, Grantland
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Remember who the enemy is.
2013 · 2h 26m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
Francis Lawrence
Overview
After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.
Director and cast
- Francis Lawrence Director
- Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen
- Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark
- Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne
- Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy
- Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket
- Donald Sutherland as President Coriolanus Snow
- Stanley Tucci as Caeser Flickerman
- Lenny Kravitz as Cinna
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee
- Jeffrey Wright as Beetee Latier
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Director Francis Lawrence's film runs nearly two-and-a-half hours but it concludes so abruptly and tantalizingly, it leaves you wanting more.
Christy Lemire, ChristyLemire.com
Fresh
The budget is nearly twice the original, and it shows. Great work from the A-list cast, amazing set designs and costumes.
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com
Fresh
Now the violence is not merely physical, but existential. Far from having won her freedom as promised, Katniss is now imprisoned in a false public narrative-supporter of the Capitol, lover of Peeta-from which she may never escape.
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Fresh
Catching Fire delivers on the grim, roiling promises of the original.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
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