Crucial tonal shifts mean the film asks harder questions than the series ever has before

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The third installment of the saga on the planet Pandora finds its inhabitants transformed into nihilist punks, ready to collaborate with their human colonizers.

Crucial tonal shifts mean the film asks harder questions than the series ever has before