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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 […]

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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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