Ebert hunger games review

Seriously, I was curled up in a ball, watching this scene through my fingers. Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for RogerEbert. Before that, she was the film critic for The Associated Press for nearly 15 years and co-hosted the public television series "Ebert Presents At the Movies" opposite Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, with Roger Ebert serving as managing editor.

Read her answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here. Rated PG for intense sequences of violence and action, and for some thematic material. 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.

Julianne Moore as Alma Coin. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee. He thinks that Jennifer Lawrence does a great job being the central role, compared to the central role of other big movies. He also states that the movie dodges many questions and deep ideas. He claims that the movie ignores the idea of the tributes being more self-aware of the cruelness and barbarity of the Capitol.

You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. A vision of present-day America is summoned up, its citizenry glutted with fast food and distracted by reality TV. How is the population expected to accept the violent sacrifice of 24 young lives a year?

How many have died in our recent wars? The year-old girl hunts deer with bow and arrow to feed her family; he may be hunkier but seems no match in survival skills.

They're both clean-cut, All-Panem types, and although one or both are eventually required to be dead, romance is a possibility. In contrast with these healthy young people, the ruling class in the Capitol are effete decadents. Effie Trinket Elizabeth Banks , bedecked in gaudy costumery and laden with garish cosmetics, emcees the annual drawing for tributes, and the nation gets to know the finalists on a talk show hosted by Caesar Flickerman Stanley Tucci , who suggests what Donald Trump might do with his hair if he had enough of it.

The executive in charge is the gamemaker, Seneca Wes Bentley , who has a beard so bizarrely designed that Satan would be envious. At the top of the society is the president Donald Sutherland , a sagacious graybeard who harbors deep thoughts. In interviews, Sutherland has equated the younger generation with leftists and Occupiers. The old folks in the Capitol are no doubt a right-wing oligarchy. Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen. Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark. Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne.

Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair. Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket. Alan Ritchson as Gloss. Jena Malone as Johanna Mason. Stanley Tucci as Caeser Flickerman. Willow Shields as Primrose Everdeen. Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy.

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee. Donald Sutherland as President Snow. Amanda Plummer as Wiress. Meta Golding as Enobaria. Lenny Kravitz as Cinna. Lynn Cohen as Mags.