Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

All Critics (67) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (15) | DVD (17)

It is not as exciting as Star Wars itself, which had the advantage of novelty. But it is better and more satisfying than The Empire Strikes Back...

August 13, 2008 Full Review | Comments (7)

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Reasonably fast paced for its 133-minute length, a visual treat throughout.

June 6, 2007 Full Review

Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

With its feints at horror and pathos, the third Star Wars film is the most Disney-esque in its emotional outline, yet that outline is buried beneath an obnoxiously hyped-up pace that reduces the emotions to rubble.

June 6, 2007 Full Review | Comments (18)

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

In scope and ambition, Jediresembles nothing so much as the next level of a computer game, with a new environment, new gadgets and new creatures.

February 9, 2006 Full Review | Comments (3)

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

Though it looks almost too polished, a handful of eye-smacking action scenes were breakthroughs in precomputer cinematic graphics. And when the film moves, it does so with blazing energy and awesome noise.

June 18, 2002 Full Review

Peter Stack

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

Marvelous!

January 1, 2000 Full Review | Comments (15)

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

This installment is deemed by some fans to be the best of the first Star Wars trilogy in technical accomplishment and narrative involvment, but other critics disagree.

July 21, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Ewok-filled finale less Force-ful than previous.

December 15, 2010 Full Review

Charles Cassady

Common Sense Media

A fragilidade de Marquand como diretor e a crescente infantilização da narrativa são facilmente constatáveis, mas ainda assim o filme consegue fechar satisfatoriamente a trilogia original.

January 8, 2010 | Comments (2)

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Return is such a dud that no amount of [Special Edition] reworking could have saved it.

July 13, 2008 Full Review | Comments (5)

Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

The finale to the saga's first chapter wobbles from time to time and the mythology grows a little woolly, but that spectacular conclusion is hard to resist.

March 4, 2008 Full Review

Film4

The space battles are well-staged and various loose narrative threads are pulled together neatly.

June 6, 2007 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Lucas and his cronies have done absolutely nothing to port this thing over for home theater other than to simply dump it on DVD.

September 12, 2006 Full Review | Comments (4)

Joshua Tyler

CinemaBlend.com

The third Star Wars film, and the sixth in the series, begins with a bang as our heroes try to wrap up the threads left hanging at the end of The Empire Strikes Back.

May 26, 2006 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

The problems with Jedi cannot be fixed even with the best digital software in the galaxy: the weak story, the bad performances, the burp jokes, and Luke's bizarre-looking hair mop.

December 6, 2005 Full Review | Comments (16)

Chris Gore

Film Threat

First-class entertainment.

September 18, 2005 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

• 1. Darth Vader: The Death Star will completed on schedule, my master.
  2. Emperor Palpatine: You have done well, Lord Vader. And now I sense you wish to continue your search for young Skywalker.
  3. Darth Vader: Yes, my master.
  4. Emperor Palpatine: Patience. Soon, he will seek you out and when he does, you must bring him before me. He has grown strong, only together can we turn him to the dark side of the Force.
  5. Darth Vader: As you wish.
  6. Emperor Palpatine: Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen. [laughs]
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• 1. Emperor Palpatine: Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
  – Submitted by Matthew D (5 months ago)
• 1. Luke Skywalker: Jabba, this is your last chance. Free us... or die!
  – Submitted by Magnus G (7 months ago)
• 1. Yoda: When 900 year old you reach, look as good you will not.
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• 1. Luke Skywalker: No, I'll never turn to the dark side. You've failed your Highness. I'm a Jedi, like my father before me.
  2. Emperor Palpatine: So be it, Jedi!
  – Submitted by Magnus G (7 months ago)
• 1. Darth Vader: You cannot hide forever, Luke.
  2. Luke Skywalker: I will not fight you.
  3. Darth Vader: Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for...sister. So, you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side, then perhaps she will.
  – Submitted by Cody H (8 months ago)