Sixty-four years before Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute in the 74th annual Hunger Games, marking the beginning of the end for Panem President Coriolanus Snow, a teenage "Corio" is assigned to mentor another District 12 tribute in the 10th Hunger Games. His subsequent rise to power is told in The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, a new film from the Hunger Games franchise's returning director Francis Lawrence based on Suzanne Collins' 2020 novel, which has audiences applauding, even if critics are more cautious, giving the film a 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Here's what they're saying: