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Rated The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 4/10

Really puzzling film, some parts are excellent, and there's some interesting narrative conceits, but then other times it's so hamfisted in crowbarring plot elements in, and it suffers from having a fundamentally unlikable main character. I mean, I get that's the point, but it doesn't make for particularly compelling viewing. Oh, and there's no way this needed to be two and a half hours long, the third act should have been a separate film, and I'm sorry, but those songs were shit. Same melody every time, with lyrics that just tell you what's going on in the plot. Down with this sort of thing.

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Published 2026-08-13 00:00 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere