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AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Review: Another Visual Marvel Undercut by Sloppy Storytelling, Underdeveloped Characters, and Cliched Dialogue

Despite their supposed lack of pop cultural impact or influence, the James Cameron-directed Avatar films (2009, 2022) have collectively grossed more than five billion dollars, suggesting that, whatever the series’s inability to break through to the terminally online, Avatar and...

ELIO Review: Pixar's Latest Stirs Heart and Senses in Equal Measure

For moviegoers of a certain vintage, Elio, Pixar’s latest addition to its stellar-level animated output, will feel comfortably, nostalgically familiar.   Centering as it does on a starry-eyed preteen dreamer, Elio pays respectful homage to family-oriented 70s and 80s Amblin...