'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' reviews: The force is not strong with this one
by Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times
Dec 18, 2019
3 minutes
The force was not strong with "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" as reviews flooded in Wednesday for the saga's buzzy finale.
While some hailed director J.J. Abrams' final "Star Wars" outing as a satisfying bookend to a series more than 40 years in the making, many dismissed it as a disappointing retread too desperate to appease the franchise's notoriously finicky fans to add any real value. Or, as The Times' Justin Chang put it, "another endless replay of 'The Skywalking Dead.'"
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