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Sci-fi thriller set in post-apocalyptic America that sees a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence from Winter's Bone) being drafted into a brutal, fight-to-the-death, reality TV show. Based on Suzanne Collins' hugely popular teen novels, from the director of Pleasantville. More
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Directed by Gary Ross
2012Rating: M142 minsUSA
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84%315 reviews
Proficient, involving, ever faithful to its source... centered around Jennifer Lawrence's impressive star turn.Variety
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Total Film
A grown-up teen movie and flaming good entertainment. The big test for the franchise lies ahead with the uneven second and third books. But on this showing, the odds are in its favour.
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The Guardian
That rarest of beasts: a Hollywood action blockbuster that is smart, taut and knotty.
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Roger Ebert
An effective entertainment, and Jennifer Lawrence is strong and convincing in the central role.
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Los Angeles Times
Making a successful Hunger Games movie out of Suzanne Collins' novel required casting the best possible performer as Katniss, and in Jennifer Lawrence [they] have hit the bull's-eye, so to speak.
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Hollywood Reporter
Jennifer Lawrence anchors this 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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Empire Magazine
As thrilling and smart as it is terrifying. There have been a number of big-gun literary series brought to screen over the past decade. This slays them all.
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A.V. Club
When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious. And as abridgments go, they don't get much more skillful than this one.
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The Hunger Games is available to stream in Australia now on Stan and Netflix and Google Play and Apple TV and Binge and Ritz at Home and Prime Video Store.
In a dystopian future, teens Katniss and Peeta are drafted for a televised event pitting young competitors against each other in a fight to the death.
Starring:Jennifer Lawrence,Josh Hutcherson,Liam Hemsworth
Jennifer Lawrence's powerful acting propelled this sci-fi thriller to open at #1 and end #3 at the year's box office.
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Jennifer LawrenceJosh HutchersonLiam HemsworthWoody HarrelsonElizabeth BanksLenny KravitzStanley TucciDonald SutherlandWes BentleyToby JonesAlexander LudwigIsabelle Fuhrman