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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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