The 'Hunger Games' Prequel And The Evil White Guy Origin Story
Movies about how bad men rose to infamy are too often met with unfair scrutiny. ‘Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,’ though, deserves that scorn.
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Movies about how bad men rose to infamy are too often met with unfair scrutiny. ‘Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,’ though, deserves that scorn.
In the absence of anything fresh, Songbirds & Snakes chooses to survive – just barely – on stale bread and worn circuses
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is an entertaining, overlong prequel. It's now playing in theaters nationwide.
Two hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a "ballad," but you can't call it "The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes" now, can you?
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has star power and action, but the prequel film lacks its predecessor’s sense of moral lucidity.