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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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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
Just a shame, then, that [Rey's] story should have so little emotional resonance, and that the Skywalker saga, with its 42 years of cinematic tradition, should end on such a charmless whimper. Dec 19, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Just a shame, then, that [Rey's] story should have so little emotional resonance, and that the Skywalker saga, with its 42 years of cinematic tradition, should end on such a charmless whimper.
Kevin Maher
The bad news is that it struggles to find a groove that fits. Dec 20, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The bad news is that it struggles to find a groove that fits.
Chris Wasser
If K-Tel [Records] did an album of Star Wars' greatest hits, this is what it would be like... So much of it felt like going through the motions of things we had seen before. Dec 20, 2019 | Full Review…
If K-Tel [Records] did an album of Star Wars' greatest hits, this is what it would be like... So much of it felt like going through the motions of things we had seen before.
Charles Solomon
Yet, despite its flaws and familiarity, "The Rise of Skywalker" draws you in, mainly because you are ardently invested in the characters - old and new. You want to know and care about their fates. Dec 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Yet, despite its flaws and familiarity, "The Rise of Skywalker" draws you in, mainly because you are ardently invested in the characters - old and new. You want to know and care about their fates.
Bob Bloom
I found The Rise of Skywalker's attempts to congeal the disparate elements from the previous eight chapters captivating. No, not every choice succeeds, but a bold attempt is far more satisfying than a lackadaisical effort. Dec 20, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
I found The Rise of Skywalker's attempts to congeal the disparate elements from the previous eight chapters captivating. No, not every choice succeeds, but a bold attempt is far more satisfying than a lackadaisical effort.
Mike McGranaghan
The Rise of Skywalker isn't the worst Star Wars film, but it may be the most Star Wars film. Dec 20, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The Rise of Skywalker isn't the worst Star Wars film, but it may be the most Star Wars film.
Rob Dean
The ending makes no sense. It is, I'm sorry to say, an outrageously dull watch, a monumental disappointment, and a flimsy finale to the Skywalker Saga. Dec 20, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The ending makes no sense. It is, I'm sorry to say, an outrageously dull watch, a monumental disappointment, and a flimsy finale to the Skywalker Saga.
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