Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Reviews
Common Sense Media
The best of the original series, but the most intense, too.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Cinema Crazed
Continues to set the standards for sequels to this day...
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| Original Score: 4/4
Cinema em Cena
O melhor de toda a série, este episódio abraça o potencial sombrio do universo concebido por Lucas e consegue equilibrar com eficiência os aspectos infantis da narrativa com os momentos de maior densidade.
| Original Score: 5/5
TIME Magazine
Top CriticIn many ways the new film is a better film than Star Wars, visually more exciting, more artful and meticulous in detail.
Cinefantastique
Despite ... an unresolved storyline that paves the way for its dismal sequel, Empire remains in many ways the best (indeed the last good) Star Wars film.
Film4
A more mature instalment than its predecessor, loaded with spectacular special effects and efficiently written, this may well be the pinnacle of the saga.
The Empire Strikes Back is a worthy sequel to Star Wars, equal in both technical mastery and characterization, suffering only from the familiarity with the effects generated in the original and imitated too much by others.
eFilmCritic.com
Each section of the film has a stand-out sequence that inspires hyperbole like 'best ever.'
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| Original Score: 5/5
Irvin Kershner directed the actors this time around, and without the benefit of Lucas's personal affection they seem stiffer, more clenched.
Arizona Daily Star
The most imaginative and emotionally connectable "Star Wars" film and, with the exception of "Revenge of the Sith," also the darkest.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Combustible Celluloid
The second act is very strong, cutting back and forth between Luke training with Yoda and Han, Leia, Chewie and C-3P0 fighting the Empire. And it's paced leisurely enough that you get to know the characters a little bit.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Time Out
Top CriticAn extended ricochet from one incendiary set-piece battle to another which still finds time to attend to plot, pace and character.
Three Movie Buffs
The best of the films.
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| Original Score: 4/4
TheMovieReport.com
Sci-fi cinema at its best.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Bullz-Eye.com
Everything you loved about A New Hope and more.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Decent Films Guide
The backbone of the Star Wars saga… takes the story and themes of the first film into deeper waters.
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| Original Score: A+
Movie Metropolis
...the deepest, darkest, most mature, and most thoughtful entry in the series.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Spirituality and Practice
The Empire Strikes Back is a total delight.
sbs.is
The best Star Wars movie, ever!
| Original Score: 4/4
Sci-Fi Movie Page
The film spends more time on its characters and unlike the previous film they aren't as busy with all kinds of swashbuckling adventures.
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| Original Score: 4/4
