Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Writer/director Rian Johnson’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is a sprawling, incident- and character-packed extravaganza that picks up at the end of “Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens” and guides the series into unfamiliar territory.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is easily the best in the franchise since Empire.

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The Last Jedi is a Star Wars movie that's truly for everyone.

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Yes, the latest “Star Wars” installment is here, and, lo, it is a satisfying, at times transporting entertainment. Remarkably, it has visual wit and a human touch, no small achievement for a seemingly indestructible machine that revved up 40 years ago and shows no signs of sputtering out (ever).

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It’s got humor, verve, and visual charm.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is striking, stunning, visually hypnotizing, thrilling - everything "epic" about the famed franchise rolled into a tremendously overcharged start to Rian Johnson's Star Wars career.

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Stellar 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' throws a few twists into the Skywalker space opera.

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Purists may balk, but Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII is a ripping intergalactic yarn.

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Rian Johnson turns this middle part of the current trilogy into an 'Empire Strikes Back' for the next generation.

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Rey and the Resistance prove irresistible.

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The Last Jedi locates that middle-chapter, Empire Strikes Back mojo.

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The Force has been awakened, but with that discovery comes restlessness, fear and awe; it’s the frailties of being human that even that universal power can’t solve.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is (mostly) a triumph.

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Surviving eye-rolling cues and clunky dialogue are the least of The Last Jedi’s achievements. Rian Johnson’s main feat is being savvy enough to know that sometimes the best thing to do is cherishing the past before burning it to the ground.

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Looking over Rian Johnson’s middle-of-the-trilogy epic without giving away the plot.

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The Resistance, led by General Leia (Fisher), are on the run. As the First Order close in, their only hope is if Rey (Ridley) can tempt Jedi Master Luke Skywalker (Hamill) back to the fight.

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Director Rian Johnson delivers a tidal wave of energy and emotion in the eighth episode of the saga, as Luke, Leia, Finn and Rey step up to meet their destiny.

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With The Last Jedi, Johnson breathed life into his pastiche. Now the question is whether Abrams can give the saga the ending it deserves.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi unspools like a one-movie binge watch, a lively if overlong and busily plotted second chapter to the latest Star Wars trilogy that advances the story and deepens its characters with a combination of irreverent humor and worshipful love for the original text.

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Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac return for the Rian Johnson-directed second film in the 'Star Wars' sequel trilogy.

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As the fate of the Jedi religion hangs in the balance, one begins to detect a certain unwillingness to stray too far from the official text in the latest 'Star Wars' sequel.

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The space saga’s latest episode examines old loyalties with surprising results.

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The Last Jedi is largely content to further the themes and narrative strategies of J.J. Abrams’s predecessor.

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi yokes Johnson’s formidable cinematic intelligence to an elaborate feat of fan service that feels, above all, like the rhetorical and dramatic gratification of a religious sect.

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