Open Channel: What’d You Think of ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’?

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:…