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Weekend Film Reviews

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" is exceptional entertainment, a spectacle with a good mind and a pounding heart.

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By Joe Morgenstern • Nov 23, 2013 • 3m Listen

In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy, Jennifer Lawrence stands, runs, shoots and suffers at the center of a production that's worthy of her formidable gifts..."

Banner image: Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Photo: Murray Close

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