Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) by A.a. Dowd for AV Club — 12 Dec 2017

By the rousing final act, Johnson has brought an apocalyptic grandeur to the lightsaber duels and airborne combat. His often-stirring addition to the saga finally lands on an affecting point about the importance of preserving essential cultural tradition without clinging too strictly to the dogma—and the texts—of the old way.