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Avatar: Fire And Ash’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Disappoints

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Newest development Dec 19, 2025 · 3 reports‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Just Set An Unfortunate Rotten Tomatoes Record

James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash is out soon, and reviews are coming in. They're okay, not amazing, and almost the lowest of his career.

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    Avatar: Fire And Ash’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Disappoints

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    ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Just Set An Unfortunate Rotten Tomatoes Record

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  1. New York Post

    ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ review: Even the weakest of James Cameron’s trio is still breathtaking (opens New York Post)

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    The third film in the 16-year-old “Avatar” franchise, “Fire and Ash,” may look and feel awfully familiar. The story hews closely to 2022’s “Way of Water,” which arrived like a Christmas present after a long 13-year hiatus.

  2. Forbes

    Avatar: Fire And Ash’s Rotten Tomatoes Score Disappoints (opens Forbes)

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    James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash is out soon, and reviews are coming in. They're okay, not amazing, and almost the lowest of his career.

  3. The Hollywood Reporter

    ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Review: Oona Chaplin Brings Witchy Villainy, but James Cameron’s Third Sci-Fi Saga Installment Is Stuck on Repeat (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The Hollywood Reporter's feed description

    Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet continue the Na'vi struggle in James Cameron's 'Avatar: Fire and Ash.'

  4. Variety

    ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Review: The Story Is Fine, the Action Awesome, as the Third ‘Avatar’ Film Does New Variations on a No-Longer-New Vision (opens Variety)

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    It's better then the second film — bolder and tighter — and still has its share of amazements. But the series no longer feels visually unprecedented.

  5. Gizmodo

    'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Is Completely Insane in the Best Possible Way (opens Gizmodo)

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    James Cameron's new film, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang, is in theaters December 19.

  6. Deadline

    'Avatar: Fire And Ash' Review:James Cameron's Epic is Bigger than ever (opens Deadline)

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    A review of 'Avatar: Fire And Ash' which expands the universe of Pandora and the Na'vi into all out war for survival in a franchise entry that rocks.

  7. The Guardian

    Avatar: Fire and Ash review – witchy new sex interest can’t save this gigantically dull hunk of nonsense (opens The Guardian)

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    The third Avatar chapter erupts with volcanic world-building and thunderous action yet remains a vast, dazzling spectacle in search of an emotional arc

  8. Engadget

    Avatar Fire and Ash review: Maybe it's time to sunset Pandora (opens Engadget)

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    The third Avatar film is a fine spectacle, but it doesn't add much to the franchise.

  9. The Hollywood Reporter

    ‘Avatar’ Box Office Preview: ‘Fire and Ash’ Vies to Join Brethren on All-Time Chart (opens The Hollywood Reporter)

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    The opening performance of James Cameron's epic Avatar: Fire & Ash will be sliced and diced every which way.

  10. Breitbart News

    Nolte: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Early Box Office Underperforms (opens Breitbart News)

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    James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash underperformed in Thursday night previews. And this is an underperformance of its expected underperformance. | Entertainment

  11. Forbes

    ‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Just Set An Unfortunate Rotten Tomatoes Record (opens Forbes)

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    Avatar: Fire and Ash is set to become a box office phenomenon, but that may be in spite of its lousy reviews.

  12. Washington Examiner

    Review: Avatar Fire and Ash is a spectacle of CGI that signifies nothing (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Avatar Fire and Ash is a weak movie that lacks a clear narrative foundation.

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