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Nobody asked for a young Han Solo movie, and the film that arrived is better than its reputation and worse than its lead deserved. Alden Ehrenreich steps into the most charisma dependent role in cinema history and does not embarrass…
The first standalone Star Wars story is the best film Disney’s era produced, and nobody at the studio seems to have understood why. Gareth Edwards built a war movie inside the galaxy far far away: no Jedi destiny, no Skywalker…
This is what a film looks like when it is written by an algorithm of fan complaints. The Rise of Skywalker spends its first twenty minutes apologizing for The Last Jedi: Palpatine is back via a radio announcement, Rey’s parents…
The most controversial Star Wars film ever made is also one of the best constructed. Rian Johnson looked at the mystery boxes J.J. Abrams left, picked up every single one, and threw them off a cliff. Rey’s parents are nobody.…
Ten years after Revenge of the Sith, Disney and J.J. Abrams brought the saga back with a film whose job was impossible: make Star Wars feel alive again without offending the memory of the originals. Their solution was to remake…
The best of the prequels by a wide margin, and the only one that functions as an actual tragedy. Revenge of the Sith opens in the middle of a space battle above Coruscant and rarely stops to breathe, and for…
The middle prequel is where the romance was supposed to make us care about Darth Vader’s fall, and it is the least convincing love story ever staged at this budget. Anakin and Padme wander picnic meadows reciting lines about sand,…
Twenty plus years of waiting for more Star Wars, and this is what arrived: a movie about trade negotiations. The Phantom Menace is not the disaster of its reputation, but it is a crushing disappointment, a film where George Lucas…
Return of the Jedi gets graded on a curve because it follows the two greatest adventure films of its era, and the drop is real but smaller than people remember. The plot resolves everything the trilogy set up: Luke confronts…
The middle chapter of the original trilogy is the one where Star Wars grew up. Irvin Kershner directed, Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett wrote, and together they did something sequels almost never do: they made the heroes lose. The Rebels…