2025’s holiday movie season has a big flick in this weekend’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third entry in James Cameron’s long-running sci-fi series. After the first movie dropped in 2009, a 13-year wait helped make 2022’s The Way of Water into one of the biggest movies that year, making a lot of money and winning some awards. How does this new film fare with just a standard three-year gap?

Reactions to Fire and Ash feel generally in line with that of the first two films: gorgeous visuals, set pieces, and scale, everthing else is kind of perfunctory. (And, y’know, it’s long as hell.) The big selling point for the threequel is the introduction of the Ash People, the first evil Na’vi clan to grace the films. Said clan is led by Oona Chaplin’s Varang, who strikes up a romantic relationship with series baddie Quaritch (Stephen Lang) in ways that are apparently very compelling to watch play out on screen when they’re not trying to kill the Sully family. Meanwhile, the Sullys are still coping with the death of eldest son Neteyam from the last movie and discover there may be a way for humankind to live on Pandora.

While we all wait to see how Avatar: Fire and Ash does on the box office level, tell us what you thought of the film. Loved it, hated it, think Cameron will get to make those next two movies? Let us know in the comments below.

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