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Movie reviews: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH; DAVID; THE HOUSEMAID
Characters fighting the power are at the center of three new releases.
Avatar: Fire and Ash The lack of cultural “stickiness” of James Cameron’s Avatar franchise has become something of an ironic punchline 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) copes with the death of their oldest son, while still facing the ongoing threat from…
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