I can’t believe I’ve seen this movie six times and no moment has lost its magic, every emotional beat hits just as hard, and I’m still overcome with chills scene after scene after scene.

When Lo’ak and Payakan first bond with one another.

When Quaritch and his men burn the village of the first tribe they interrogate.

When Ronal’s spirit sister lets out one last wail before she’s murdered by the whalers.

When Lo’ak and the kids realize that Payakan’s…

Maybe one of the most rewatchable movies ever made??? I was absolutely obsessed with the original and saw it four times in theaters, but this was my fifth viewing of The Way of Water, and I already have a sixth watch planned for Saturday. Gotta get up to eight so I can I’ve spent 24 hours on Pandora (though I would also watch this on a loop if I could).

I’ve accepted that I not only unabashedly (and unapologetically) adore Avatar…

Just as flawless (to me) the fourth time.

I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to stop thinking about how the final scene makes me feel, and every time I rewatch this, I think it’ll affect me less, but somehow, it hits even harder? I think part of it is because, the more times I see Avatar: The Way of Water, the more time I spend with this family - and the more little details I pick up on…

LET’S.
GET.
IT.
DONE.

I started sobbing as soon as Neteyam and Lo’ak go back to save Spider this time because I already knew what was coming and I didn’t stop crying on and off until after that gutpunch of a final scene (I’m 😭 just 😭 happy 😭 to 😭 see 😭 you 😭) so James Cameron will be sent my therapy bills for the foreseeable future.

I love all the kids so much, and even more on every…

Avatar: The Way of Water is an awe-inspiring blend between a nature documentary and a blockbuster - a thrilling three-hour-long travelogue through the oceans of Pandora with deep feeling in its foundation and an unspeakably epic third act that will leave you breathless and in tears.

It’s just so rare to watch a blockbuster that’s both formally ambitious and full of authentic emotion. This is no “empty” epic - as James Cameron once again revolutionizes VFX, he’s also sharing a…

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a super-stuffed sequel (emphasis on the super) that’s definitely a little too long, but it’s a miracle to see a Marvel movie this well directed and shot (God bless Ryan Coogler and Autumn Durald Arkapaw), and when it hones in on its central themes about how consuming and corruptive grief can be, it does transcend and cut through all that cinematic universe noise. Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Tenoch Huerta are the standouts of an…

Sure, on the surface, it’s easy to dismiss this as yet another “silly” Halloween sequel - taking the story in WILD new directions that completely subvert our expectations for a franchise “conclusion” - but I can’t help but ire David Gordon Green and co for actually daring to do something different instead of rehash the same old same old. Halloween Kills was meant to be a slasher SPECTACLE that delivered on its title in spades, but while I still thought…

It feels obvious and cliché to call Nope a “movie that makes you fall in love with movies all over again,” but thanks to its stupefying spectacle and staggering sense of scale and scope, that’s exactly what it is - and yet, it’s also so much more at the same time. 

Not content to simply give us the best directed blockbuster of the summer this side of Top Gun: Maverick, Jordan Peele also (expectedly) suffuses his modern “cowboys vs. aliens”…