Star Wars Movies, Ranked
by
Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor
and Joal Ryan, for Metacritic – December 2, 2016
and Joal Ryan, for Metacritic – December 2, 2016
Updated in 2020 to add The Rise of Skywalker.
Peerless at the box office, the Star Wars franchise has been drubbed by critics as often as its movies have been praised. Above, take a look back at how the 12 big-screen Star Wars movies to date have fared with critics.
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photo by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
(#8) Critics could not abide the "annoying teddy bears" in the "repetitive" 1983 culmination of the original Star Wars trilogy.
“[T]he third movie’s outcome smacks of PG-rated populism rather than artistic fulfillment.” —Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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