Review: 'The Hunger Games'—Odds Ever In Their Favor
Advance ticket sales brisk in Northern Virginia for PG-13 film debuting with special showings at 12:01 a.m. Friday.
For many teenagers, life feels like a matter of life and death. In "The Hunger Games," it actually is. The new release, destined to be a blockbuster from the pre-sold tickets alone, is a beautiful, deeply affecting, and riveting film with a heroine for the ages. Actress Jennifer Lawrence, luminous and compelling as Katniss Everdeen, can express a myriad of emotions on her face without speech. In a movie world where actors often merely state their emotion and inner thoughts, the screenwriters and director of "The Hunger Games" trust Lawrence to pull it off with acting. Treading similar territory to her Oscar-nominated acting for "Winter's Bone," she vacillates between resignation and a melancholy determination that breaks your heart. …
Leslie Combemale
1:13 pm on Friday, March 23, 2012
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