James Cameron’s Avatar Saga Grows Hotter and Louder, but Not Smarter
‘Fire and Ash’ proves Cameron still rules large-scale spectacle, even if Pandora’s expanding mythology feels more like interstellar soap opera.
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Zoë Saldana
‘Emilia Pérez’: Your Oscar-Contending Drug-Cartel Sex-Change Musical
French filmmaker Jacques Audiard swings for the fences
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The Female-Centric Winners Of Cannes
Women dominated the jury and the films of this year’s festival
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Was ‘Special Ops: Lioness’ Worth Losing ‘Yellowstone’s’ John Dutton?
This summer’s off-set drama indicates that maybe ‘Yellowstone’ was always less than the sum of its parts
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A Whale of A Sequel
In ‘Avatar 2: The Way of Water’, James Cameron brings the underseas 3D bombast
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Amsterdumb
David O. Russell’s snarky but self-serious ‘Amsterdam’ makes an improvised muddle of Depression Era history
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Like Water For Old Franchises
The ‘Avatar 2’ trailer raises the question: does anyone actually care about Avatar?
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Bunk to the Future
‘The Adam Project’, a dopey time-travel movie from Ryan Reynolds
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Much Ado About Chris Pratt
Is he a Republican? Who cares?
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Blue Interlude
‘Avatar’ (At Least In 3-D) Is Not the Forgettable Disaster You Blocked Out
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