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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
As Hollywood storytelling often goes, in a movie trilogy, the studio has three chances to tell a good story (rarely is a story told cohesively across all three parts), and in the case of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, directed by JJ Abrams, Disney couldn't help but break even more eggs in an attempt to "fix" their investment.
That's precisely what The Rise of Skywalker is as the 9th episode in "The Skywalker Saga," the band-aid name to fix…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As sequels go, Star Wars: The Last Jedi pretends to stand on its own as a criticism of both real-world issues and its hero, which is distinctly not George's Star Wars. Rian Johnson proports to have put creative vision first, but the truth is he tosses out most of what came before in favor of new, egregiously unsatisfying developments that weigh in at zero on the scale of importance. From throw-away characters to bad jokes and, worst of all, a…