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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 […]

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How the “Star Wars” franchise lost its way

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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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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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