Review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by Justin Chang for Los Angeles Times — 18 Dec 2019
The Rise of Skywalker nakedly offers itself up in the spirit of a “Last Jedi” corrective, a return to storytelling basics, a nearly 2 ½-hour compendium of everything that made you fall in love with “Star Wars” in the first place.
The more accurate way to describe it, I think, is as an epic failure of nerve. This “Rise” feels more like a retreat, a return to a zone of emotional and thematic safety from a filmmaker with a gift for packaging nostalgia as subversion.
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This review of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) was written by Justin Chang and published by Los Angeles Times on 18 Dec 2019.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has generally received positive reviews.
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