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Dive into a clammy, cathartic scuba thriller

et wet wet: cinema in 2023 seem to have water on the brain, from Disney’s rather soggy remake of to silly shark chomp-fest. The heightened hoopla ofmade “beach” an entire aesthetic while Pixar’s took things even further by featuring water as one of its two leads (amusingly, his name was “Wade”). It’s not even over yet: those gimmicky 4DX seats that jerk around on hydraulics and It all feels like some sort of trickle-down effect from, that luxurious undersea adventure that made the sun-drenched, gorgeously blue oceans of Pandora look like a soul-soothing paradise. James Cameron somehow spent over a decade and reportedly around £350 million on a message movie that said: come on in, the water’s lovely!

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