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Film reviews: New releases for Dec. 19
Avatar: Fire and Ash; The Housemaid; The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants; David; The Librarians
Avatar: Fire and Ash **1/2 The lack of cultural “stickiness” of James Cameron’s Avatar franchise has become something of an ironic punch line by now—no movies have been talked about more in terms of how they’re never talked about—but I remember this much about 2022’s The Way of Water : It created an entirely new environment on Pandora as a canvas for its characters.
And this one … does not. It picks up hard on the heels of Way of Water ’s events, as the family of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña) cope with the death of their oldest son, while still facing the ongoing…
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