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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker suffers from a frustrating lack of imagination, but concludes this beloved saga with fan-focused devotion.
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It doesn't do anything new or even terribly distinctive, but maybe it didn't have to. It just had to be good enough to stick the landing, and it does that. Dec 22, 2019 | Full Review…
It doesn't do anything new or even terribly distinctive, but maybe it didn't have to. It just had to be good enough to stick the landing, and it does that.
Bob Mondello
You sense in this film, J.J. [Abrams] shrinking that world... Everything in this franchise feels like a take back. Dec 20, 2019 | Full Review…
You sense in this film, J.J. [Abrams] shrinking that world... Everything in this franchise feels like a take back.
Amy Nicholson
The Rise of Skywalker entertains, it elicits laughters, and it makes you feel even as you snicker at some predictably basic and occasionally nonsensical story decisions. Dec 20, 2019 | Full Review…
The Rise of Skywalker entertains, it elicits laughters, and it makes you feel even as you snicker at some predictably basic and occasionally nonsensical story decisions.
Brandon Katz
If you disliked "The Last Jedi" (like I did), you'll like - but probably not love - "The Rise of Skywalker." If you liked "The Last Jedi," this review might not be for you. Dec 20, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
If you disliked "The Last Jedi" (like I did), you'll like - but probably not love - "The Rise of Skywalker." If you liked "The Last Jedi," this review might not be for you.
Matthew Rozsa
When we meet up with brash pilot Poe, he's lightspeed-skipping his way out of trouble, and Abrams is in much the same mode, whisking you from one thing to the next before you have much time to think or feel anything in response. Dec 19, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
When we meet up with brash pilot Poe, he's lightspeed-skipping his way out of trouble, and Abrams is in much the same mode, whisking you from one thing to the next before you have much time to think or feel anything in response.
Matthew Lickona
The hermetic logic of the plot is as impeccable as it is ridiculous. It's a drama crafted with robotic insularity for the consumption of viewers being rendered robotic at each moment of the soullessly uniform spectacle. Dec 19, 2019 | Full Review…
The hermetic logic of the plot is as impeccable as it is ridiculous. It's a drama crafted with robotic insularity for the consumption of viewers being rendered robotic at each moment of the soullessly uniform spectacle.
Richard Brody
A good, explosion and spaceship-filled time at the cinema, but instead of a brave new direction, it was the same old stuff recycled. Ah well, still better than Episode I! Jan 20, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A good, explosion and spaceship-filled time at the cinema, but instead of a brave new direction, it was the same old stuff recycled. Ah well, still better than Episode I!
David Hogan
The changing of Rey's origins really hinders the kind of epic conclusion this could have been. Jan 18, 2020 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
The changing of Rey's origins really hinders the kind of epic conclusion this could have been.
Sara Clements
It turns out there isn't new darkness or new light - just the same old battle on franchise repeat. The galaxy is saved, once again, by a lone hero who has finally learned her rightful place in a very closed circle. Jan 16, 2020 | Full Review…
It turns out there isn't new darkness or new light - just the same old battle on franchise repeat. The galaxy is saved, once again, by a lone hero who has finally learned her rightful place in a very closed circle.
Kathryn Reklis
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is two hours and twenty-one minutes of exposition-dialogues explain, in excruciating detail, everything someone or some group does just before they do it. Jan 16, 2020 | Full Review…
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is two hours and twenty-one minutes of exposition-dialogues explain, in excruciating detail, everything someone or some group does just before they do it.
Rubin Safaya
It contributes to a major cause, but this last entry feels like a fun adventure from start to finish, and that's what this world is all about. It's not about angry fans. [Full review in Spanish]. Jan 16, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It contributes to a major cause, but this last entry feels like a fun adventure from start to finish, and that's what this world is all about. It's not about angry fans. [Full review in Spanish].
Federico Furzan
But in between all of the galaxy-hopping and doodad-hunting, there's some great Star Wars here. This trilogy has been at its most effective when exploring the Skywalker legacy, and Rise of Skywalker continues that trend. Jan 15, 2020 | Full Review…
But in between all of the galaxy-hopping and doodad-hunting, there's some great Star Wars here. This trilogy has been at its most effective when exploring the Skywalker legacy, and Rise of Skywalker continues that trend.
Ryan Silberstein
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