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The Last Jedi

Film & Music

The Rise of Skywalker: Reduced expectations and damage control

December 22, 2019 Thomas P. Harmon 17

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 […]

Film & Music

Star Wars: The Rise of Nostalgia

December 17, 2019 Sean Fitzpatrick 9

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 […]

Features

From heroism to cynicism: The deconstruction of Luke Skywalker

January 7, 2018 Thomas P. Harmon 22

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 […]

The Dispatch

How the “Star Wars” franchise lost its way

December 26, 2017 Bishop Robert Barron 42

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 […]

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