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Jun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The Acolyte provides just that. Seeing the Jedi at the height of their powers is impressive. But seeing them, at their apex, utterly confused and at times powerless is even better. Jedi are being hunted but they have no idea who’s behind it or what the motivation is. Neither does the audience. The mystery of this series is what will keep you riveted to your screen.
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Jun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The Acolyte isn’t an out-of-the-gate triumph — that barely-a-twist is a little clunky in the execution, and it remains to be seen how many more surprises might be left in the season. However, watching this show, I felt years of that aforementioned frustration floating away, to be replaced by pure possibility. Even if the remaining four episodes of the series don’t live up to this potential, we at least have proof of how big the galaxy can really be.
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Jun 7, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Most of The Acolyte’s innovations are good — not because they might make people mad, though that’s an added bonus, but because they open up exciting possibilities for the Star Wars universe. Also, because The Acolyte is just plain fun, in the mode of a pulpy adventure novel or an open-world video game.
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Jun 6, 2024
Radio TimesJun 4, 2024
Jun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“The Acolyte” combines the classical elements that give “Star Wars” an evergreen appeal with new additions to the canon, a strong core cast and a brisk pace. The show also underscores a lesson “Star Wars” has taught itself in the past, though hasn’t quite taken to heart: you don’t need to recycle elements from the master narrative to make its offshoots compelling. In fact, the opposite approach is often more rewarding.
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LooperJun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
"The Acolyte" is a thrilling new addition to "Star Wars," a series that reliably looks and acts the part while also genuinely attempting to explore new corners of this galaxy. It's a must-see for any "Star Wars" fan, of course, but it'll also make for great thriller viewing even if you barely know what "Star Wars" is.
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ColliderJun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Leslye Headland brings an entirely fresh approach to the franchise by allowing her characters to be imperfect. It helps that these first four episodes of The Acolyte range from 32 to 42 minutes, giving the characters a chance to breathe and feel settled within the fast-paced plots.
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RogerEbert.comJun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
[The third episode is] such a brilliant hour that the rest of "The Acolyte" suffers a bit alongside; it's hard to return to the main story's comparatively more wooden characters in the fourth episode after getting such a satisfying, self-contained tale. Even so, there's potential in this series and its slower, more contemplative direction
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The PlaylistJun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Like the prequels, “The Acolyte” ponders many dark and complex subjects but, so far, lacks proper depth in this consideration. Still, “Star Wars” has always felt too torn to cast its White Knight heroes in too negative a light and thus has never quite committed to what could be much more morally damming parables. Nonetheless, “The Acolyte” feels like it’s going there. Now, it’s a matter of whether they’ll probe past the surface.
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Jun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The final episodes will ultimately determine whether this amounts to a significant and perhaps fertile new avenue for “Star Wars,” or merely an interesting detour. Until then, this tale of the Jedi is entertaining and mildly promising. Whether that opens new doors for Disney/Lucasfilm or leads to a dead end, as a wise little green fellow once said, always in motion is the future.
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The TelegraphJun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Unlike Andor – easily the best of the Star Wars spin-offs – The Acolyte is a pulled punch, too eager to play the story out in a series of five-minute jeopardy riffs rather than trust that the audience might have an attention span. There are teasing hints of what it could be.
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Jun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The various plot mechanisms take about one and a half episodes to fully build up momentum, but once that happens, “The Acolyte” becomes a lot more intriguing. Still, the question remains: Do fans have the appetite for yet another “Star Wars” spinoff only fleetingly connected to the galaxy they know?
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Jun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Beneath the familiar trappings, the visceral pull that “Star Wars” can summon in its best moments — “The Empire Strikes Back,” “The Last Jedi,” parts of “Andor” and “The Mandalorian” — doesn’t manifest itself. Characters speak in platitudes about loss, grief, loyalty and revenge, and the cast mostly works down to the level of the dialogue.
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Jun 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Most of the pieces are uneven at best, if not simply underwhelming. Carrie-Anne Moss is used well in an opening action set piece (once again getting to work with bullet-time effects, 25 years after the first Matrix) but is otherwise wasted, and the later fight scenes aren’t as dynamic.
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Jun 5, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Despite the reported $180 million budget, it’s a show that shrinks the world rather than expanding it, blowing its money on lavish set pieces rather than building out environments for us to inhabit. The Acolyte acts like it’s swinging for the fences, but when the time comes, the best it can manage is a bunt.
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