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2013
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Positive Reviews
171
Negative reviews
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3.5
As for the ending, it seems destined to tick off the non diehards: Like too many franchise installments, Catching Fire builds to more of an ellipsis t ..
Av Club
2.0
Its not a Hunger Games level competition here, but Catching Fire thrills more than it provokes, and Philomena remains pensive throughout.
Indie Wire
3.0
Truly great fantasy worlds require a cohesion unfortunately lacking in this franchise.
We Got This Covered
4.5
The combat action aint all that, lacking the invigorating disorientation of the first film and its didactic pleasure in detailing the survivalists pro ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
The Hunger Games franchise, both in print and onscreen, has been exceptionally clever about cozying away imaginative space for fans to fill in the bla ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
Conversely, the conflagration that is the Hunger Games franchise is already well beyond full scorch.
Time Out
4.0
Catching Fire looks and feels epic.Hands down its one of the most entertaining films of the year.
Time Out
4.0
All performances are solid but Jennifer Lawrence is the soul of the film.
ETimes (TOI)
4.5
But no matter how well they stick to the script, theres a revolution brewing.
Collider
1.5
The size of the product demands feeding into violent entertainment, but the on screen violence in Catching Fire doesnt have the weight of the first mo ..
Collider
3.5
Its too bad that, like its predecessor, Catching Fire doesnt convey the full horror and injustice of each combatants death at the moment of killing.Th ..
Vulture
4.6
The cliffhanger ending, on the other hand, risks being vaguely frustrating, suggesting the real action is yet to come rather than closing a chapter li ..
Paste Magazine
3.8
The one truly fresh invention and the one that matters most is Katniss herself. With each on screen chapter, the poor girl from District 12 continues ..
Rogerebert
4.1
The Hunger Games existence is horrible enough on its own for the people of Panem and those forced to compete.
IGN
4.0
Both The Hunger Games and its sequel, Catching Fire , adapted from a series of young adult novels by Suzanne Collins , do a fine line in blockbuster s ..
Telegraph
4.0
Constructing dark and complex themes and introducing dynamic new characters and stars, its a satisfying and dramatic new adventure in the now blockbus ..
Cinema Blend
4.0
And the movie would have to light up the sky like fireworks to live up to its fans huge expectations.
Ny Daily News
3.5
THE HUNGER GAMES series if often compared to the TWILIGHT movies, but the appeal of this series is much broader.
JoBlo
4.0
If this is any indication of what is to come, THE HUNGER GAMES may very well be a franchise to remember.
JoBlo
4.0
This is not entirely the fault of the screenwriters, however; Catching Fire is the middling installment of a three book set, and like so many middling ..
Screen Rant
4.4
Since the weight of hopelessness hangs so heavily over the land, the faint flickerings of whatever hope is left is carried by the movie like a candle ..
The Globe And Mail
4.5
The victory tour also reveals another phenomenon of contemporary culture: winning, stardom, and heroism are so intertwined that it is hard to tell the ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.8
This film, like its characters, is more mature, with deeper emotional undertones.
One Guys Opinion
2.5
They spent more on production design for this wintry, woodsy sequel to The Hunger Games.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.5
Its an escapist fantasy film that more or less works as solid spectacle entertainment.
Sover
3.8
For those outside the circle of fandom, the picture was a difficult sell, slowed by tremendous exposition, disrupted by an absurd use of shaky cam cin ..
Blu Ray
3.1
This one attempts to expand the franchise into an entire universe of ideas, but it doesnt show enough.
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
Its refreshing to see a Hollywood franchise so invested in creating a sense of intimacy, even if that intimacy feels hackneyed.
Chicago Reader
3.8
Whatever skepticism the first movie raised about this setup is eliminated with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.1
But the films social commentary on celebrity obsession is more intriguing than the bland teen romance.
Usa Today
4.0
The French film Blue Is the Warmest Colour is certainly wild and angry and hot.But is it really the second coming
The Times
3.5
While the whole premise of Hunger Games themselves are flawed and counter productive, this part of the story finally ends up where it should.
Lariat
3.8
Even better news: Francis Lawrence will direct the two Mockingjay films, so they have a solid chance of being good.
News Review
5.0
Everything is bolder, bigger and better in this enthralling segment: the spectacle channels Ben Hur, the tropical combat zone is a thrilling tangle of ..
Radio Times
4.5
Like its predecessor, its good but not great and thus rates as a 6 out of 10.
Screen It
3.0
The second instalment of the Hunger Games franchise is a definite improvement on its predecessor.
Independent
4.4
Hows that for daring greatly, especially in a blockbuster franchise
Rolling Stone
4.5
This second installment of the film series based on the novels by Suzanne Collins hits all the bases for a genre movie whether youre there for thrills ..
The Wrap
4.0
On top of that, the production design work is superb, particularly in the spectacular costumes Cinna designs for Katniss.Hunger Games: Catching Fire i ..
View London
3.1
By definition, this sequel cant feel as fresh as the first movie, The Hunger Games, and its prevented from delivering whatever rock em, sock em moment ..
News Day
3.8
The action is smoothly sustained, the dystopian weirdness is alternately creepy and somewhat less cloying, and Jennifer Lawrence is, if anything, even ..
Cs Monitor
4.5
Catching Fire moves swiftly and the special effects and settings are fresh and dazzling.
Film Journal
4.0
Say what you like about the Twilight movies, but the mould breaking model of an epic teen oriented fantasy franchise that doesnt pander predominantly ..
The Guardian
3.0
The appeal of Lawrence is central to the appeal of this film and its franchise.
The Guardian
4.0
Catching Fire is a great leap forward for the franchise.Seeing as its all about hope and what it represents, heres hoping the next two are just as goo ..
Az Central
3.5
This is the sort of thing that raises the film a notch more than its rather facile depths.Too bad that the most of the last act is so much a retread o ..
Mountain X
3.5
And that allows a story that might have been mined purely for tears and anger to inspire both laughter and a startling degree of forgiveness.
Npr
3.8
The series may never get better than this, but its clearly in the right hands now.
Npr
5.0
The battles are packaged as gladiatorial reality shows designed to keep the populace disengaged and submissive.The spectacle is undeniably impressive.
Star Tribune
3.8
Their discussion is lively and engaging and packed with detail that fans of the series will appreciate.
Q Network
3.5
Catching Fire is more energized than the first Hunger Games movie; its been directed, by Francis Lawrence, with a darkly sustained verve.
Ew
4.5
Much of the genius of the Hunger Games franchise lies in its portrayal of a dystopian future society that lacks any specific ideological character.
Salon
4.0
Im not being facetious; this is an enormously appealing fantasy and a refreshing change from the male dominated comic book universe that supplies most ..
Slate
4.0
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Emma Simmonds 15 November 2013 Tight plotting and great performances make for a strong sequel The first Hunger Games m ..
Flim List
4.0
Even then, this is truly a franchise thriving on a single performance.
Empire
4.0
On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is an exciting, engaging, escapist 8 a spectacular sequel that should satisfy f ..
Susang Ranger
2.5
This movie is so boring even the villains are no fun.The actors are uniformly awful, but who can blame them with everyone saying lines like What does ..
Observer
4.0
This sequel manages to be gripping and emotional, despite the need for more exposition and new characters.
Common Sense Media
4.0
Catching Fire is this years best blockbuster because it has characters, not caricatures.
Movies
3.8
Catching Fire is best in its first hour, when it concentrates on the politics and the specific horrors of Panem. It becomes more conventional in the s ..
Sf Gate
2.5
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Boston Herald
3.8
Director Francis Lawrence imbues the source material provided by novelist Suzanne Collins with visceral pleasure in well wrought scenes vacillating be ..
Slant Magazine
4.0
Whereas for some of us the confounding cosmology of kids killing other kids for pleasure and political expedience reeks of cynicism and downright perv ..
Washington Post
4.0
A thrillingly atypical heroine, Katniss is the heart, soul and bloodied embodiment of the series and the primary reason that both the book and screen ..
The New York Times
4.0
The picture was a grimly watchable survival thriller but its point largely escaped me.
Express
3.8
No one expected it, but Catching Fire turns out to be the best of this years fantasy blockbusters, weaving in compelling ideas amidst entertainment th ..
The Film Stage
3.8
Like that picture, Catching Fire has the bonus of a genuinely charismatic performer at its center.
Chicago Tribune
3.8
has greater emotional weight, higher consequences for its characters, its downtrodden masses supporting a Capital whose denizens indulge in hedonism a ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
Katniss is a marvelous cutdown of the preposterousness that too often passes for heroism in Hollywood, and a marvelous jab at the limited autonomy Hol ..
Flickfilosopher
4.0
The end result is a proper thrill ride that also offers surprising insights into the dynamics of tyranny.
The Irish Times
5.0
It represents commendable storytelling that ought to please the books many fans.
Blogs Indie Wire
4.5
Easily the most sophisticated and thoughtful franchise film of 2013, Lawrences adaptation of the second novel in Suzanne Collins young adult series is ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
That fight may end up being bold and exciting, but getting there is a little anticlimactic.
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
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Total Film
4.4
Offers its audience many of the elements that made The Hunger Games compelling, but adds to that by deepening the themes and emotional currents and tr ..
ReelViews
5.0
As faithful as Argos or Old Yeller, Snowy or Hachiko, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire runs no risk of disappointing its absolutely ravenous target aud ..
Hollywood Reporter
5.0
It is likewise little surprise that the story will ultimately wind its way into another installment of the Hunger Games.
The Atlantic
4.8
Its so well done that it justifies every moment fans have not so patiently awaited the second installment of what has become the most satisfying franc ..
Lyles Movie Files
4.5
From its very first frame, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire sustains your curiosity in its ensemble of potential revolutionaries against a dictatorship ..
Deccan Chronicle
4.0
The success of this sequel will demonstrate, beyond doubt, that flesh and blood females can dominate the boysy, blockbuster landscape.
Standard
2.0
For what Collins adroitly did was place a kind of High School Confidential in very particular circumstances.
Los Angeles Times
4.0
Catching Fire makes for rousing entertainment in its own right, leaving fans riled and ready to storm the castle.
Variety
3.8
This blockbuster franchise picture can feel somewhat ho hum and repetitive (but then so did some of the Harry Potter sequels).
Groucho Reviews
4.5
Benedict Cumberbatch Wants You To Know He *Is* The Motherf*cking Grinch The Grinch star takes Mike Ryan through the final scenes of Avengers: Infinity ..
Hit Fix
4.4
Catching Fire is so much fun and does such a great job mounting the drama of the series increasingly engrossing story that I dont think I can wait for ..
Aisle Seat
2.5
Its an exciting, dynamic interlude that stands in stark contrast to the dreary nature of everything preceding it, with the movie subsequently building ..
Reel Film
3.1
While nothing is more dramatic than the change at the core of this film Katniss move from survivor to leader its not enough, on its own, to comfortabl ..
Nj
4.5
Much of the credit for this goes to Jennifer Lawrence, the fine actress who gives Catching Fire its conscience and its heart.
Movie Habit
3.8
Were never quite sure what any of them are up to, but they make us want to find out and for a blockbuster sequel, thats the best way to win the game.
The Star
1.9
Catching Fire is bad.Itll make the money it will make, earn no new converts to the flock, and be the type of movie you hope no one ever brings up in p ..
Film Freak Central
3.8
Even the biggest fan of Suzanne Collins Hunger Games book trilogy might admit the 2012 film adaptation (while a big hit) was largely carried by its ca ..
Oregon Live
4.0
Given the nature of its ending, audiences are probably more likely to be disappointed it didnt keep going.
Deseret News
2.5
It is surprising that the odds are not in the films favour, in light of the narratives rich undercurrent of betrayal and pretence; it feels overlong, ..
Urban Cine File
5.0
Catching Fire is tightly paced with very little filler. No line or character is wasted.
Movies Tv Guide
4.0
Unpredictable yet utterly dependable, thrilling yet stoic, Everdeen is a force of nature on screen.
The Age
4.0
The verdict: It might all feel familiar, but this sequel delivers enough action, romance and fantasy to keep fans happy, with the excellent Lawrence m ..
Mirror
4.0
You dont need the first weekends grosses to predict a boxoffice inferno.
Varia Gate
4.4
There is very little comedy relief in the film and none of it comes from Lawrence.
Three Movie Buffs
3.0
As an adaptation of Collinss Catching Fire, Lawrences film is close to faultless. As cinema, its solidly engaging but consistently underwhelming.
Digital Spy
4.2
Thats a bravely auteurish way of filming what is essentially popcorn entertainment.
Tamp A Bay
3.8
Yes, its the middle chapter and feels like it, but its never dull.
New York Post
4.0
But its managed to be just as good a film as its predecessor, and a must see chapter in this terrific and terrifying story.
Nz Herald
4.0
While Catching Fire is eminently watchable it lacks the surprise factor of the earlier film even while serving as a bridge to its own anything could h ..
Flicks
3.8
Movie fans will enjoy; supporters of ridiculous beards will be disappointed.
Red Eye Chicago
3.1
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has far more on its mind than ornate costumes and CGI effects, and this is what finally lifts the movie above its more ..
Dustin Put Man
4.5
Its an exhilarating trick that makes the tour of the districts painfully dull and the return to the games utterly horrifying.
Contact Music
4.0
It offers up the best that Ms. Collins ideas have to offer without the young adult nonsense that stunted the first film.
Film Racket
4.4
Like its predecessor, Catching Fire engages serious themes with a fairly light touch.
Larsen On Film
4.4
The movies (gratefully) violently counteract any attempt we might make to see them as fun escapism.To see The Hunger Games is not to be entertained.
Christianity Today
3.5
Otherwise, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is solid entertainment, provocative and exciting.
Hollywood And Fine
4.2
The bottom line this is a franchise that offers more than just action and romance.
The Film Pie
4.0
Catching Fire is the rare film thats better than the original book.
Io9 Gizmodo
3.1
Im going to assume that the result is a faithful adaptation of material so beloved by a core audience that you tamper with its content at your risk.
Js Online
4.0
Blockbuster sequels can easily fall victim to the curse of bigger but not better, by raising the stakes in ways that often undermine what made the ori ..
The Dissolve
3.5
I think theres a truly spectacular 120 minute version of this film buried in the 146 minute one thats being released.Its a minor complaint for an exce ..
Hollywood Chicago
2.5
Its a skin deep blockbuster that might edify fans enjoyment of the book but itll bore everyone else to tears.
Cinemix Tape
4.0
2 hours and 15 minutes flies by fairly quickly, leaving you breathlessly waiting for the next chapter.
ComingSoon
4.5
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is what every blockbuster franchise should be quality films deserving of that title.
Shockya
2.0
Vivid, visceral filmmaking, twisty and entertaining, with startlingly good turns by Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Flavor Wire
4.4
Now, past winners will compete once more in a life or death struggle.Whaaaat
Daily Herald
4.0
If anything, and rarely for a sequel, this film almost renders its predecessor unnecessary.
The Shiz Nit
4.5
Not only is Catching Fire smart, stylistically entertaining, brilliantly acted, and socially relevant, it manages to avoid coming across as 2 and a ha ..
What Culture
4.4
In many ways, Catching Fire is a better film than its impressive 2012 predecessor.The rough edges have been smoothed out gone are those confusing fast ..
Mercury News
3.8
In place of the usual franchise cliff hanger.A tantalizing close up thats as gutsy as it is understated.
Bitly
2.0
A massive payday is again assured but, while this shows some more teeth than the compromised first instalment, its still far from the savage and vital ..
The Skinny
4.0
Its a meaty set up, and while the film takes its time exploring the characters, its themes and action sequences are more forcefully realised than they ..
Scots Man
1.5
Display terminals radiate like fans from simple vases on desks, and chromed out bullet trains look more like classic cars than spaceships.
The Verge
2.0
Failing to Light Chapter 2 of the young adult behemoth yields little in the way of new material.
The Ooh Tray
2.5
Theres a depressing irony to the fact that The Hunger Games, a book series about the medias ability to placate the masses with superficial distraction ..
Movie Mezzanine
1.5
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is inevitably a rerun of the first film, to some extentnearly two and a half hours of teen bait action romance.But its ..
reason
4.4
It keeps the strengths of the first film the brilliant casting, the striking art direction and does a much better job telling the story.As a film base ..
Scifi Movie Page
4.0
So much is made by viewers of the central, brutal Hunger Games that not nearly enough is made of the funhouse mirror madness unfolding around it; a sm ..
Streaming Quickflix
3.0
But what keeps The Hunger Games: Catching Fire alive and kicking is its transcendent strain of humanity.
Tony Mack
4.0
Katniss comes at it with a level of experience, and we see a deeper purpose to the games.
Fat Guys At The Movies
3.5
It alone is worth the price of admission.The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is full of intense engagement, action, danger, pride, hope, wonderful perform ..
Review Express
2.0
Spinning in that wedding dress, or glaring in wary repose, Lawrence catches fire on screen. Shell make a superb La Pasionaria when Panem has a real wa ..
Entertainment Time
4.0
A film packed with chewy sci fi ideas, heart pumping action and surprisingly graphic violence meant adolescent lads and sane adults were lapping it up ..
Daily Star
3.5
But by effectively recycling the formula of the original, this sequel achieves something unique in that it manages to keep pace with its predecessor a ..
Daily Film Fix
5.0
It doesnt, but it does add up to a sequel thats a good deal more satisfying than its predecessor.
Fw Weekly
2.0
This is Empire Strikes Back stuff.It has that second Star Wars movies kick of confidence.
Grant Land
4.0
Gary Ross did a solid job crafting the cinematic world of Collins novels, but The Hunger Games was lacking in certain areas, particularly the action s ..
Blog Bullz Eye
3.8
Dont expect a fulfilling ending here, or much of an ending at all in this in betweener installment.
Us Magazine
4.5
Quality stuff, an entertaining package. For those that retained their skepticism last time, this may even appear to be a better film. But HG has becom ..
Wp Me
4.0
In those moments the intended emphasis slips into repetitiousness.Lawrence just dominates this entire film.
Graffiti With Punctuation
4.0
The Hunger Games novels are anything but young adult reads.And Catching Fire is anything but a love story.
Toledo Blade
3.8
Like the penultimate Harry Potter chapter, its a hinge for the next installment, and while thats obnoxious in the broad sense, it does leave one wanti ..
Cambridge Day
3.5
Its spectacle and cartoon nonsense built around a spectacular young actress.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
2.2
Whats wrong with The Hunger Games and its sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.Well, I just cant get past the buffoonery.
Movie Chambers
3.5
I went back and saw the first film again fairly quickly after seeing it the first time because I enjoyed it so much. Wouldnt elect to do that with thi ..
Need Coffee
4.0
Its a thrilling adventure that manages to avoid the scene setting ennui that cursed the extended travelogue that was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hall ..
Sky
2.5
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is, like its predecessor, thoroughly competent.
Free Beacon
3.5
Despite legitimate concerns about the violence and persistent secularism of the series, when it comes to young adult books and the movies based on the ..
World Wng
4.5
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Richard Roeper
4.4
The movements are fluid and intensethe well paced drama gives way to a tremendous sequences of action, and its great to see that Francis Lawrence is o ..
Schmoes Know
3.8
The challenge the filmmakers will have is whether they can exceed those expectations.
Ut Sandiego
2.2
Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Director Francis Lawrence, heard my plea of no shaky cam in the sequel.
Eclipse Magazine
4.5
Director Lawrences vision of this dystopian world is more consuming, too, making it easy to get lost in this two hour, 26 minute wave of emotion that ..
Abc News Go
4.0
It may not quite live up to the standards of its predecessor, but it far exceeds its source material.
Hey U Guys
4.0
Still exciting despite not being as futuristically special effects infused and a bit lighter on the action set pieces than movie one; theres a lot mor ..
The Diva Review
4.0
But even with such big ideas, Catching Fire is still dressed up as slick and efficient entertainment.
Standard Net Au
4.5
This film feels far more brutal than The Hunger Games; now that the tributes are adults we can see more violence and bloodshed onscreen.
Bad Ass Digest
4.0
You pulled off a pretty tough task with this movie that captures the spirit of rebellion without lobbing bombs of anger.
O Canada
4.0
Though overlong at 146 minutes, Catching Fire retains the originals curiously engaging mix of The Running Man, Spartacus, Ben Hur, Avatar and Rambo.
Birmingham Mail
4.0
Sure, there are ideas in it, but at its heart, Catching Fire is mostly good, old fashioned entertainment, like the Star Wars movies are at their best.
Daily News
4.5
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is every bit as potent and gripping as its predecessor and a real triumph of entertainment.
The Mercury
4.0
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Sfx
4.5
But for every breathy winner, there are many more losers.What is the eventual outcome of all this endless striving, this pushy kill or be killed notio ..
The Tyee
4.2
Movie lovers should applaud this sequel for improving on the best parts of the original.
Oc Register
3.0
I didnt *love* it, but the performances and a few surprises (Cinna!) kept me engaged.Lawrence is central to the whole endeavor, and convincingly makes ..
Blogs Houston Press
4.4
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4.4
Jennifer Lawrence is a boon to this franchise. When she faces great and maddening cruelty, we feel the burn too.
M Live
3.5
But the film finds much surer footing as a legitimate genre piece in the hands of its new director, who brings fantasy film cred after the Keanu Reeve ..
Screen Space(Squarespace)
4.5
Lawrence again proves Katniss is stronger and smarter than most heroes in this male dominated genre.
Fox News
3.8
Its a fresh and radical spin on a well worn story, and luckily Bhansali cast two bright lead talents more than able to tackle the challenge.
The Movie Report
4.5
Catching Fire is a big improvement on The Hunger Games and left me more enthusiastic about the franchise than the first installment did.
Cines Nark
2.0
And one Harry Potter movie more than sufficed.Strangely, Im a fan of The Hunger Games saga, including the one book Ive read by Suzanne Collins: intell ..
Arts Fuse
4.5
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Seventh Row
3.8
skill set is wide: She might be the best on screen crier in the business, but her Katniss is steely and vulnerable, her sexiness somehow self deprecat ..
Events Austin 360
4.5
When you lose a job, you can get pissed off at the system but you see yourself more as a victim of circumstance rather than a member of a social class ..
Louis Proyect
4.5
Its a loose enough metaphor that you could also apply it to star Jennifer Lawrences real life career suddenly Oscar nominated, she has to make the rou ..
Topless Robot
1.0
This new creative team doesnt just repeat the previous film or the book... they substantially improve upon both.
Television Without Pity
4.5
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is about passion: the passion of love, the passion of power, and the passion of oppressed humanity that lives on hope.
Ncr Online
3.5
The first film left me dumbfounded as to what the appeal of this whole series could be, outside of Jennifer Lawrence.But this sequel deepens the story ..
Deads
5.0
Well done.The Games are as much about spectacle as anything, and director Francis Lawrence puts that wonderfully into life: A dazzling but decrepit Ca ..
Patheos
4.0
Lawrence is the rare female action movie lead who carries on the fierce tradition of Sigourney Weaver in the Alien franchise ( while becoming a genuin ..
Windy City Media Group
3.8
Director Francis Lawrences film runs nearly two and a half hours but it concludes so abruptly and tantalizingly, it leaves you wanting more.
Christy Lemire
3.5
But its not terrible.Much better executed than in the last movie.
Filmdrunk Uproxx
4.4
Catching Fire is a classic blockbuster sequel, offering more of the same, only bigger.
Madison Movie
3.1
But bring some popcorn and a catheter attached to a moonshine jug to ensure maximum comfort.
Co Ed
3.8
But the thought of deviously designed obstacles around every corner holds less tension here.
Sacbee
4.0
What makes The Hunger Games film series stand out isnt just the grim, too close for comfort future it depicts or the ridiculously talented and broad c ..
Cinephiled
4.0
Though overlong at 146 minutes, Catching Fire retains the originals curiously engaging mix of The Running Man, Spartacus, Ben Hur, Avatar and Rambo.
Birmingham Post
3.1
Its doubtful a viewer will throw his/her hands in the air in exasperation, and in an Effie like pout, wonder: Why didnt they stick to the story
Slj
3.5
Among the newcomers, Sam Claflin, as the arrogant Hunger Games veteran Finnick Odair, has a mischievous charm.
Mass Live
3.5
Talk about starvation! Catching Fire is sadly lacking in visual nutrition.
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