Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Review: four trips to the cinema in Ukraine

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:28:16 +0300

I Watched Avatar: The Way of Water Four Times Because Ukraine Kept Losing Power

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) — my review, and the strange story of finally managing to watch it from beginning to end in Ukraine during the winter of 2022.

Most movie reviews follow a familiar pattern: you go to the cinema once, watch the film, go home, think about it for a few hours, and write down your thoughts. My experience with Avatar: The Way of Water was nothing like that. I ended up seeing it four times—not because I loved it so much that I couldn’t stop watching, but because the electricity kept disappearing. I finally managed to watch the entire movie on December 20, 2022. That date matters to me because, under ordinary circumstances, watching a Hollywood blockbuster is one of the simplest things in the world. You buy a ticket, sit in the dark for three hours, and leave. In Ukraine at the end of 2022, almost nothing felt ordinary.

Dune (1984) Review: A Beautiful Failure Caught Between Lynch and Hollywood

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:28:16 +0300

Dune (1984): A Beautiful Failure Caught Between David Lynch and Hollywood

There are two fundamentally different ways to approach David Lynch’s Dune. The first is to see it as an ambitious artistic blockbuster—a rare studio film from the 1980s that wasn’t trying to entertain teenagers as much as provoke philosophical reflection. Many viewers were willing to project Frank Herbert’s ideas onto Lynch’s extravagant cosmic imagery, overlooking the obvious differences between the novel and its adaptation. The enormous sets, practical effects, and vast visual landscapes encouraged audiences to search for deeper meanings behind every frame. Whether those meanings were actually there almost didn’t matter; Lynch himself would likely have welcomed such subjective interpretation.

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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Review: four trips to the cinema in Ukraine

Dune (1984) Review: A Beautiful Failure Caught Between Lynch and Hollywood

Dune (1984): A Beautiful Failure Caught Between David Lynch and Hollywood