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    STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

    Feb 09, 2020 4 minutes
    EDITED BY IAN FREER

    OUT NOW CERT M / 142 MINS

    DIRECTOR J.J. Abrams

    CAST Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, Lupita Nyong’o, Billy Dee Williams

    PLOT Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) lives, and is threatening revenge on the galaxy via a huge fleet of planet-killing ships. The Resistance, and Rey (Ridley), must find the clues that will lead them to him and allow them to defeat him again.

    FOR THE THIRD time in many adults’ lifetimes, a conclusion of the Skywalker saga. Once again, a trilogy has built to this finale; once again, the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. This one. But it does feel like a conclusion to the story that director J.J. Abrams began in , for better and sometimes for worse.

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