PHOTO: THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES’ is now at 92% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes with 155 reviews

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‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Review – The YA Phenomenon Returns

Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as singer Lucy Gray Baird have an intense stare off in THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES.

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‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Review – The YA Phenomenon Returns

A. Felicia WadeBY A. FELICIA WADENOVEMBER 9, 2023 | 11:00 AM

The year is 2012, The Hunger Games has hit theaters and the renaissance of Young Adult fiction and dystopian films begins. The Hunger Games franchise has drawn in billions of dollars including the book trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Other YA adaptations followed suit, but none hit the mark like the world of Panem and its districts working towards freedom against the corrupt capital. Now, eight years after the release of Mockingjay – Part 2, Lionsgate has revived the series with a prequel that takes place 64 years before our heroine Katniss Everdeen enters the game arena. Franchise director Francis Lawrence returns to tell the tale of a young eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow, who would eventually become the sinister tyrannical President of Panem, in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes can be seen as a villain origin story broken up into three parts: before, during, and after the 10th annual Hunger Games. Following who we know as an older President Snow (Donald Sutherland), actor Tom Blyth (Benediction, Billy the Kid) now takes the mantle in an incredible powerhouse performance. Blyth as Snow is magnetic, you feel drawn to him and to his cause. He begins the film seeking a better life for himself, his older cousin Tigres (Hunter Schafer), and his Grandma’am (Fionnula Flanagan) in a post-war Capitol. Both characters are used to bring out the best and worst sides of Snow. Schafer brings a gentleness to Tigres and is a positive force for Snow while Grandma’am wants to return to their previous status before the Panam Civil War.