The first season of Disney’s The Mandalorian deliberately—and successfully—returns to the tighter storytelling of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It uses sparse dialogue and gorgeous visuals to set the scene, and keeps the […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is not a good movie. Its frenetic pace rushes us through a convoluted plot, any particular moment of which has its own problems. The plausibility of the plot and […]
For those who grew up a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the final episode in the Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker, promises an emotional conclusion to what was a […]
The latest Star Wars installment has no aspirations of being anything more that rousingly good time, which serves greatly in its favor. […]
James Papandrea is quite right in giving pop science fiction closer attention than others might think it warrants, for there are deeper ideas at stake […]
The Last Jedi demythologizes Skywalker in order to deconstruct the cultural achievements of the original Star Wars trilogy and clear the way for a new […]
What began forty years ago as a thrilling, cinematic exploration of the philosophia perennis has devolved into a vehicle for the latest trendy ideology—and that […]
It wasn’t that writer-director Rian Johnson failed in making a great Star Wars film; he didn’t even try. […]
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