Avatar - Fire and Ash (2025)
Cameron takes the third Avatar somewhere darker, with a hostile Na'vi tribe and a grieving family. The world-building is still the best in the business, even at three hours and a quarter. 8/10.
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Articles published in 2025.
The Running Man (2025)
Edgar Wright takes Stephen King's nastiest dystopia back to its roots, hands it to Glen Powell and turns it into a furious chase picture with a satirical streak. Loud, fast and angrier than it lets on. 8/10.
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Predator - Badlands (2025)
Dan Trachtenberg flips the franchise inside out and puts the Predator at the centre of its own story, with an android sidekick and a planet that wants everyone dead. It should not work as well as it does. 8/10.
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Tron - Ares (2025)
Fifteen years after Legacy, the Grid spills out into our world to a Nine Inch Nails pulse. The story is thin and the critics are cool, but as pure neon-and-noise spectacle it delivers what I came for. 8/10.
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Superman (2025)
James Gunn takes the keys to a new DC Universe and bets the whole thing on Superman meaning it. The reboot machinery shows, but the sincerity lands and the world is a pleasure to be in. 8/10.
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The Fantastic Four - First Steps (2025)
Marvel's most-fumbled family finally get the film they deserve, a warm retro-futurist origin that trusts its own world rather than the machinery around it. 8/10.
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Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
Gareth Edwards reboots the dinosaurs as a lean tropical survival picture, handing the franchise back to scale and suspense rather than lore. The story is thin, the monsters are not, and it is a far better night out than the scores suggest. 8/10.
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28 Years Later (2025)
Boyle and Garland come back to the Rage virus after eighteen years and find something stranger and sadder than another outbreak film. A coming-of-age story dressed as a horror, and a return that earns the wait. 8/10.
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Mission - Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie bring the espionage saga to a close with a sentient AI, a sunken submarine and a biplane, and the practical thrills still land harder than the plot. 8/10.
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Thunderbolts* (2025)
Marvel hands its leftover bruisers and washouts a smaller, sadder, sharper film than the brand has managed in a while, and the gamble of casting Florence Pugh as the heart of it pays off. 8/10.
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