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Avatar: Fire and Ash — James Cameron Finally Gives the Na’vi a Villain of Their Own

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  This week, two very different movies named Avatar landed on streaming, and the overlap is almost funny. One is the live-action remake of the cartoon, now into its second season. The other is the one that made close to a billion and a half dollars at the box office. Avatar: Fire and Ash, the … Read more

In the Hand of Dante — Oscar Isaac Is Both the Thief and the Poet in Julian Schnabel’s Wild Swing

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  Some movies are content to tell you a story. In the Hand of Dante wants to grab you by the collar and drag you across seven centuries. Julian Schnabel’s new film, which played at Venice last fall and arrived on Netflix on June 24 after a brief run in theaters, is a literary heist, … Read more

Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 Preview — A Darker Book, a New Team, and the Toph Problem

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 There is one shot in the Season 2 trailer I keep returning to. Toph Beifong, the blind earthbending prodigy fans have waited two years to meet, stands clean and composed, not a hair out of place. Something in me hesitated. The Toph I grew up watching was never composed. She was dirt under the fingernails … Read more

Voicemails for Isabelle — Zoey Deutch Turns a Wrong-Number Rom-Com Into a Story About Grief

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 Voicemails for Isabelle arrived on Netflix on June 19 and shot straight to the top of the movie chart, which is the kind of thing that happens when a rom-com has a hook this clean. A grieving woman keeps leaving voicemails for her dead sister, not knowing the number has been reassigned to a stranger … Read more

Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair — A Nostalgia Revival That Actually Works

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 Most TV revivals are a bad idea wearing a beloved name. They show up two decades late, trade on your affection, and leave the original looking a little worse for the visit. Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair is the rare exception. The four-episode revival landed on Hulu in April and immediately became the … Read more

The Testaments — Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale Sequel Shifts to the Daughters of Gilead

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 The Handmaid’s Tale ended in 2025 after eight years, and rather than let Gilead fade, Hulu has handed the story to the next generation. The Testaments, based on Margaret Atwood’s 2019 sequel novel, finished its first season on May 27 and was renewed for a second before the finale even aired. It has already pulled … Read more

One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson’s Best Picture Winner Lands on Prime Video

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 Paul Thomas Anderson has spent thirty years making films that critics revere and casual audiences quietly avoid. One Battle After Another is the one that broke through. It swept the 2026 Academy Awards with six wins, including Best Picture and, at long last, a first Oscar for Anderson himself. Now that it has arrived on … Read more