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Weekend Film Reviews

The Hunger Games

Joe Morgenstern reviews "The Hunger Games," a movie about kids being manipulated – literally unto death. It's a film that manipulates it audience as well…

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By Joe Morgenstern • Mar 24, 2012 • 3m Listen

In life it's usually feast or famine. In The Hunger Games it's both a feast of cheesy spectacle and a famine of genuine feeling…except for the powerful – and touchingly vulnerable – presence of Jennifer Lawrence…

Banner image: Jennifer Lawrence stars as 'Katniss Everdeen' in The Hunger Games. Photo by Murray Close

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    Joe Morgenstern

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