Avatar: The Way of Water's reviews
Media reviews
Empire
James Cameron has surfaced with a cosmic marine epic that only he could make: eccentric, soulful, joyous, dark and very, very blue. Yes, he's still leagues ahead of the pack.
Entertainment Weekly
The movie's overt themes of familial love and loss, its impassioned indictments of military colonialism and climate destruction, are like a meaty hand grabbing your collar; it works because they work it.
The Wrap
When Cameron's film calms down, and the stunning imagery that cinematographer Russell Carpenter ('Titanic') has created with the film's enormous visual-effects team can linger for a while, the imagination and scope of Avatar: The Way of Water can occasionally feel quite magical.
USA Today
It?s a gorgeous and stunning thing to look at, with awesome sights of underwater fauna, and the new movie is an emotionally charged outing that again dips into themes of colonization while adding environmental issues and relatable family drama.
Slashfilm
'Avatar: The Way of Water' overstays its welcome but it sure is thrilling when it wants to be.
Screen Crush
You can't say The Way of Water doesn't give you your money's worth, especially in the visual department. This thing's got enough eye candy to give you ocular diabetes.
Los Angeles Times
In Avatar: The Way of Water, the director James Cameron pulls you down so deep, and sets you so gently adrift, that at times you don't feel like you?re watching a movie so much as floating in one.
Time
'Avatar: The Way of Water' is both more extravagant and dorkier than Avatar, which was pretty dorky to begin with.
Variety
At its height, it feels exhilarating. But not all the way through. Cameron, in "The Way of Water," remains a fleet and exacting classical popcorn storyteller, but oh, the story he's telling! The script he has co-written is a string of serviceable clichés that give the film the domestic adventure-thriller spine it needs, but not anything more than that.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote