The most dangerous thing about Pandora is that you might grow to love her too much

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

2022

Directed by James Cameron

Written by Josh Friedman, Shane Salerno, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and James Cameron

Spoilers: high

Seems like I should be getting somewhere, somehow I'm neither here nor there

BULLET TRAIN

2022

Directed by David Leitch

Written by Zak Olkewicz (based on the novel Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka)

Spoilers: moderate

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety

CLEOPATRA

1963

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Written by Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (based on The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, plus Plutarch and that whole gang)

Spoilers: N/A

The Encyclopedia Brown: But we're supposed to work for the tsar

THE COSSACKS

1928

Directed by George Hill and Clarence Brown

Written by Frances Marion (based on the novel by Lev Tolstoy)

Spoilers: moderate

Kick me in the jimmy

THE STORY OF QIU JU

1992

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Liu Heng (based on the novella "The Wan Family's Lawsuit" by Chen Yuabin)

Spoilers: mild

Steven Spielberg, part XXXIX: Hey, I know a song, it's called "While You Were Singing, I Got Stabbed In the Head By a Puerto Rican"

WEST SIDE STORY

2021

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Written by Tony Kushner (based on the play by Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim)

Spoilers: severe

Transparent allegory

GLASS ONION

2022

Written and directed by Rian Johnson

Spoilers: moderate