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Critic Reviews for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The odds are definitely in favour of Catching Fire as it emerges as a strong successor for one of the most gripping action-adventure tales of our time

Tushar P Joshi, DNA

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The only quarrel you can pick with 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' is its stressful length of 146 minutes, and whoa a strange striptease by a cougar contestant in an elevator

Khalid Mohamed, Deccan Chronicle

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Jennifer Lawrence is impressive as the warrior whose public support disturbs the powers that be

Mark Kermode, The Guardian

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There’s no clear victor on this record, apart from the fan

Associated Press Source, Washington Post

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The film makes our hopelessness pit against our own indomitable spirit of survival

Renuka Vyavahare, The Times of India

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'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Sparks a Flame for the Series

Jeremy Kirk, First Showing

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Lawrence gives a fierce performance, brilliantly balancing defiance and fear

Rajeev Masand, CNN-IBN Live

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Mr. Lawrence gives 'Catching Fire' a tougher, less sentimental feel this time around

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

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As movies of this budget, bandwidth and expectations go, Catching Fire is not exceptional. But it can't be dismissed either

Shalini Langer, Indian Express

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The book literally put onscreen, which will delight fans to no end

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

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Inevitably, some of the interest and novelty of the Hunger Games has dwindled in this second film. It's a retread rather than a narrative continuation

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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You can feel the franchise dynamic chugging beneath, with the result that 'Catching Fire' is not quite a full course, more of an amuse bouche, making its mammoth audience hungry for future, meatier instalments

Paul MacInnes, The Guardian

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The closing scene not only concluded the movie in a spectacular way, with amazing acting by J-law, but also set up the start of the next film

Haley Frederick, The Huffington Post

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'Catching Fire', which builds on the box-office and critical success of last year's 'Hunger Games', is spectacular in every sense of the word

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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As a stand-alone music collection, Catching Fire works well enough

James McNair, The National

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Catching Fire, the second film in the Hunger Games series, is an electric drama, which will pin those of all ages to their seats

Jenny McCartney, The Telegraph

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The size of the product demands feeding into violent entertainment, but the on-screen violence in 'Catching Fire' doesn’t have the weight of the first movie

Matt Goldberg, Collider

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Rebellious? Nah. But it's unquestionably all heart

Nick Catucci, Entertainment Weekly

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'Catching Fire' is so committed to carrying on the fine work started by its predecessor that the applause flows utterly naturally

Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

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