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'Avatar': Does its so-so story matter? It depends on your definition of matter
17 hours ago
I'll leave it to the box-office gods to decide if the slightly soft opening of James Cameron's Avatar this past weekend was actually the result of a Northeast snowstorm, whether that was just studio spin, or if it's some combination of the two. (I vote for the latter.) What I will say is that the visually shimmery, feast-for-the-eyes 3-D psychedelic action spectacular that I saw a week and a half ago was hampered -- rather obviously, to me -- by a so-so, functional-but-never-more-than-functional storyline, that it still has a so-so storyline, and that it always will have a so-so storyline. …
- Owen Gleiberman
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