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ST Critics' reviews for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Discussion in 'Sequel Trilogy' started by Darth Palpadious, Dec 12, 2017.

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Bazinga'd Saga / WNU Manager - Knights of LAJ Staff Member Manager

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ScreenCrush - "A Saga Returns to Greatness"

Bazinga'd , Dec 12, 2017

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G-FETT Chosen One

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Four stars from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...he-last-jedi-review-episode-viii-rian-johnson

Five stars from The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/star-wars-last-jedi-review-blunt-force-entertainment-will-leave/

G-FETT, Dec 12, 2017

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Ender_and_Bean Chosen One

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Strongbow said: ↑

Wapo review 3/4 stars. Pretty positive in the text.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/star-wars-the-last-jedi-brings-the-band-back-together-with-love/2017/12/12/37d62242-d47a-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_starwars-12pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.f9ae8f30e44c
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This same critic's reviews of Rogue One (2.5/4)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goin...d56ea1c2bb7_story.html?utm_term=.9b8032b2ab26

and The Force Awakens (also 3/4)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...72e2751f433_story.html?utm_term=.556b950354ae

So, the Washington Post has been one of the more critical of the new offerings yet. I'd say that bodes well. I've enjoyed the other 2 and would have awarded them better star ratings than that myself.

Ender_and_Bean, Dec 12, 2017

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DARTHSHAME Jedi Master

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Dec 19, 2003

Variety review somewhat expected. I knew some reviewers would not accept Rian Johnson's vision after the leaks were revealed. Still there are some compliments. Overall, I hope and expect mostly positive reviews.

DARTHSHAME, Dec 12, 2017

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Ender_and_Bean Chosen One

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Xael said: ↑

http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/12/12/star-wars-the-last-jedi-review

97 from IGN
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the quintessential Star Wars movie. It embraces everything in the franchise that came before while taking big risks to push the story into new and unexpected places. While there are a few subplots that weigh it down in the middle, everything ultimately works toward delivering an absolutely stunning sequence of events that make its emotionally rich ending a possibility. It’s dramatic, it’s exciting, it’s heartfelt, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s funnier than any Star Wars movie has any right to be. It doesn’t answer every lingering fan question but it darn well delivers on the ones it chooses to address, ending things on a satisfying note even though there’s one more chapter in this trilogy. And on top of all that, the final scene bucks all Star Wars trends, yet it works because it’s reflective of what makes the saga as a whole so special.
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Ender_and_Bean, Dec 12, 2017

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DARTHSHAME Jedi Master

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Ender_and_Bean said: ↑

Strongbow said: ↑

Wapo review 3/4 stars. Pretty positive in the text.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/star-wars-the-last-jedi-brings-the-band-back-together-with-love/2017/12/12/37d62242-d47a-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_starwars-12pm:homepage/story&utm_term=.f9ae8f30e44c
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This same critic's reviews of Rogue One (2.5/4)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goin...d56ea1c2bb7_story.html?utm_term=.9b8032b2ab26

and The Force Awakens (also 3/4)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...72e2751f433_story.html?utm_term=.556b950354ae

So, the Washington Post has been one of the more critical of the new offerings yet. I'd say that bodes well. I've enjoyed the other 2 and would have awarded them better star ratings than that myself.
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Wow, 2.5/4 for Rogue One, yikes. I agree, if Washington Post likes TLJ then that is a good sign. Although, I do not like some of the story choices made in TLJ, I generally want it to be well received by the general public.

DARTHSHAME, Dec 12, 2017

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Strongbow Force Ghost

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G-FETT said: ↑

Strongbow said: ↑

Harbour said: ↑

Predict dozens of 10/10 and "maybe even as good as ESB" reviews.
I mean they were absolutely fine with SKB and total rehash two years ago.
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Speaking of a total rehash, did we need two of those ridiculous posts?
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The Boards are crashing all the time (with traffic) and people aren't sure if their post has gone through or not. Will be a LOT of this in the days ahead.
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Of course. It was still funny.

Strongbow, Dec 12, 2017

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Ender_and_Bean Chosen One

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May 19, 2002

G-FETT said: ↑

Variety

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/star-wars-the-last-jedi-review-rian-johnson-1202635597/

(Not great AND spoilerific)
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It may sound like a backhanded compliment, but with so much on the line, Johnson deserves credit for not messing things up. By contrast, Lucas got himself into trouble for not catering enough to fans with his early-2000s prequel trilogy, a situation J.J. Abrams (who serves as an executive producer here) addressed in “The Force Awakens,” which felt like a thrilling, big-budget “Star Wars” fan film.
“The Last Jedi” possesses the same reverence for the galaxy Lucas created, paying homage in all the right places (from the chills we get from John Williams’ iconic fanfare to the new-and-improved walkers that appear during the climactic siege) while barely advancing the narrative. Ultimately, there’s only so much wiggle room Johnson has to play with a property that seems destined to generate a new installment/spinoff every year until we die
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Ender_and_Bean, Dec 12, 2017

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G-FETT Chosen One

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The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/star-wars-the-last-jedi-reviewed

I think it's a positive?

G-FETT, Dec 12, 2017

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PymParticles Manager Emeritus VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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All glowingly positive

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-last-jedi-takes-star-wars-movies-to-a-fantastic-new-1821200662

http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-the-last-jedi-review/

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/12...w-the-star-wars-film-that-finally-lives-up-to

PymParticles , Dec 12, 2017

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Ender_and_Bean Chosen One

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G-FETT said: ↑

Four stars from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...he-last-jedi-review-episode-viii-rian-johnson

The Last Jedi gives you an explosive sugar rush of spectacle. It’s a film that buzzes with belief in itself and its own mythic universe – a euphoric certainty that I think no other movie franchise has. And there is no provisional hesitation or energy dip of the sort that might have been expected between episodes seven and nine. What there is, admittedly, is an anticlimactic narrative muddle in the military story, but this is not much of a flaw considering the tidal wave of energy and emotion that crashes out of the screen in the final five minutes. It’s impossible not to be swept away.
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Ender_and_Bean, Dec 12, 2017

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Harbour Jedi Grand Master

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Like this one. Toned down, as was expected from the SW fans who watched this movie.

Harbour, Dec 12, 2017

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DAR likes this.
G-FETT Chosen One

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New York Times (Very positive)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/movies/star-wars-the-last-jedi-review.html

G-FETT, Dec 12, 2017

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Darth Palpadious Jedi Master

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This is looking very good indeed. IGN's review could have made me faint with excitement. They really did love it, didn't they?

Darth Palpadious, Dec 12, 2017

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Ender_and_Bean Chosen One

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May 19, 2002

Five stars from The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/star-wars-last-jedi-review-blunt-force-entertainment-will-leave/[/quote]

From Rey versus Kylo Ren to Luke versus the First Order to Laura Dern versus a Star Destroyer – that’s one you’ll want to see on the big screen – these confrontations aren’t just thrilling and beautifully staged, but have an eeriness and loneliness that reminded me of Ralph McQuarrie’s unearthly Star Wars concept art from 1975.
Lucas was able to use and develop much of what McQuarrie envisioned, but there was little space for those minor-key qualities amid the bustle of the first three films. The Last Jedi leans into them. It’s less Star Wars as you’ve never seen it than Star Wars as you’ve never felt it.
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Ender_and_Bean, Dec 12, 2017

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Ender_and_Bean Chosen One

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May 19, 2002

G-FETT said: ↑

The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/star-wars-the-last-jedi-reviewed

I think it's a positive?
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If there’s any artistic unconscious or second level to “The Last Jedi,” it’s in a recurring plot point involving the very notion of mind control. And if there’s a sense of ego built into the movie, it’s with the built-in certainty that its maker and its viewers are on the right side of things. Lockstep consensus is cultivated not with chewily carnivorous troglodytes flaunting wanton violence and cruel spews of gore but with purpose and virtue, devotion and tradition, in the unimpeachable and unexceptionable name of liberation. “The Last Jedi” is a story about the Resistance; but it itself is a cinematic masterwork of the First Order.
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Ender_and_Bean, Dec 12, 2017

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raefinnpoe Jedi Master

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Dec 18, 2015

85 on metacritic so far

raefinnpoe, Dec 12, 2017

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PymParticles Manager Emeritus VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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G-FETT said: ↑

The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/star-wars-the-last-jedi-reviewed

I think it's a positive?
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Richard Brody is... weird with this series. The only two films he likes are Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

PymParticles , Dec 12, 2017

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G-FETT Chosen One

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Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun Times) very positive

https://chicago.suntimes.com/entert...ast-jedi-stays-true-to-joys-of-the-franchise/

G-FETT, Dec 12, 2017

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jedijax Force Ghost

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PymParticles said: ↑

All glowingly positive

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-last-jedi-takes-star-wars-movies-to-a-fantastic-new-1821200662

http://www.slashfilm.com/star-wars-the-last-jedi-review/

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/12...w-the-star-wars-film-that-finally-lives-up-to
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I read the last paragraph of the birthmoviesdeath one. That is NOT positive as far as I am concerned. Basically says there's nowhere to go and they need to start new and fresh.

jedijax, Dec 12, 2017

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PymParticles Manager Emeritus VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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G-FETT said: ↑

The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/star-wars-the-last-jedi-reviewed

I think it's a positive?
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Richard Brody is... weird with this series. The only two films he likes are Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.

PymParticles , Dec 12, 2017

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Ender_and_Bean Chosen One

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May 19, 2002

G-FETT said: ↑

New York Times (Very positive)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/movies/star-wars-the-last-jedi-review.html
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Mr. Johnson has picked up the baton — notably the myth of a female Jedi — that was handed to Mr. Abrams when he signed on to revive the series with “The Force Awakens.” Mr. Johnson doesn’t have to make the important introductions; for the most part, the principals were in place, as was an overarching mythology that during some arid periods has seemed more sustained by fan faith than anything else. Even so, he has to convince you that these searching, burgeoning heroes and villains fit together emotionally, not simply on a Lucasfilm whiteboard, and that they have the requisite lightness and heaviness, the ineffable spirit and grandeur to reinvigorate a pop-cultural juggernaut. That he’s made a good movie in doing so isn’t icing; it’s the whole cake.
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Ender_and_Bean, Dec 12, 2017

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raefinnpoe Jedi Master

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Dec 18, 2015

85 on metacritic so far 25 out of 27

raefinnpoe, Dec 12, 2017

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Bazinga'd Saga / WNU Manager - Knights of LAJ Staff Member Manager

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What time is the RT "reveal"?

Bazinga'd , Dec 12, 2017

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Ender_and_Bean Chosen One

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G-FETT said: ↑

Richard Roeper (Chicago Sun Times) very positive

https://chicago.suntimes.com/entert...ast-jedi-stays-true-to-joys-of-the-franchise/
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By its very place in the timeline, “The Last Jedi” serves as stepping stone of sorts, setting the scene for “Star Wars: Episode IX.”
Still, this is no mere placeholder of a story. Huge, important things happen to characters secondary and primary. Surprises big and small abound. As is the case with all of the “Star Wars” films, where there is evil there is heroism, and where there is bravery there is sacrifice — and sometimes where there is love, there is heartbreak.
That’s the way things were a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and that’s the way things are today — and that’s another reason why we love these movies.
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Ender_and_Bean, Dec 12, 2017

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