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Critics have weighed in on The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, starring Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.

This origin story for Donald Sutherland’s monstrous bad guy from the original films casts Rachel Zegler as a dystopian theatre-kid and squanders the anger of novelist Suzanne Collins’s source material

Despite strong lead performances and an intriguing premise, the prequel to the Hunger Games can't effectively lure audiences back to Panem.

If you push the tired prequel tropes aside, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a triumphant comeback for The Hunger Games franchise that ups the stakes from the original films and dives deeper into the storytelling from a welcome new angle.

Prequel to the hit teen dystopia recruits Rachel Zegler and Jason Schwartzman to labour over IP that is now starved of inspiration

Actor paid homage to Katniss Everdeen for red carpet premiere in Berlin

Reactions to The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes are in

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has screened, and people are taking to social media with their first reactions.

Suzanne Collins, who wrote the novel for Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, has seen the new movie.

Director said there was ‘no way’ he was going to make the mistake again in the forthcoming prequel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’

Zegler stars in prequel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’