Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by Christopher Orr for The Atlantic — 14 Dec 2017

Does the movie, like its predecessor, rely on familiar tropes a bit more than it should? Yes, I think it does. Is it, at a solid two-and-a-half hours, considerably longer than it needed to be? Yes, that too.

But it’s still a pretty damn good movie, arguably the best the franchise has offered since Empire.