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Which leaves it up to the human element to carry the day. As Katniss, Lawrence puts in a performance that will rank as one of the best of the year. Because of her toughness, vulnerability, and savvy, she elevates moments of poignance into poetry, mawkish scenes into genuine emotion, and the few inklings of class defiance into stirrings of revolution.
