Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: December 20, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 61 Critic Reviews
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19
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37
Negative:
5
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38
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 20, 2019
Three films in, and Ridley has mastered the fierce scowl and “stick the landing” poses of a superhero movie. She has not, in any sense, created a character who moves us with her expressions of fear or grief. Every time somebody she cares about dies, it’s dry tears all around. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineMichael Joshua RowinDec 18, 2019
The film, hyper-aware of the shadow cast by the franchise’s history, struggles to both honor and redeem the past before everything comes to a close. Read full review
30
The New YorkerRichard BrodyFeb 1, 2020
The hermetic logic of the plot is as impeccable as it is ridiculous. It’s a drama crafted with robotic insularity for the consumption of viewers being rendered robotic at each moment of the soullessly uniform spectacle. Read full review
30
VoxAlissa WilkinsonDec 18, 2019
The Rise of Skywalker falls somewhere between an overstuffed fan-service finale and a yawnfest. If The Force Awakens kicked off a new cycle in the franchise and The Last Jedi set it up to push beyond its familiar patterns, The Rise of Skywalker for the most part runs screaming in the other direction. Read full review
20
CineVueChristopher MachellDec 21, 2019
The Rise of Skywalker offers us nothing but toadying supplication to the worst aspects of fan culture. There is no story to tell here, no characters to care about, no ideas to explore. The film is pure construct, a box built for its own sake, at long last opened with excruciating listlessness, revealing nothing but its own vapid emptiness. Read full review
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