Collection
The Hunger Games
Panem, the Games, and the prequels.
Which order? Release order; the prequels after.
The films, in release order
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The Hunger Games 2012Gary Ross’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s novel is best before the arena: a coal-town reaping played in silence, a Capitol of dyed beards, and Jennifer Lawrence, who never asks to be liked. Once the fighting starts, the camera shakes and the horror slips through.Fi1m 70 - 2
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013Francis Lawrence makes *The Hunger Games: Catching Fire* a forceful adventure about political control, with Jennifer Lawrence giving the danger a human cost. The familiar preliminaries run long, but the performances make this a sequel worth staying with.Fi1m 80 - 3
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 2014The third *Hunger Games* film has no games in it, an interesting idea for an hour and a stalling tactic for the second. Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman keep it alive; cutting one book in two nearly kills it.Fi1m 60 - 4
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 2015Francis Lawrence closes the series with a grim, careful war film that has one great set piece and about forty minutes it does not need. Jennifer Lawrence and Donald Sutherland hold it up; the decision to split the last book does not.Fi1m 61
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