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The Last Jedi is the one movie you’ll still be talking about in 2018

Jedi vs. Jedi: Rey (Ridley) must convince Luke Skywalker (Hamill) to rejoin the Resistance

TO SAY THAT WRITER-DIRECTOR RIAN Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is watchable even by those who have zero investment in the Star Wars franchise or its characters may sound like faint praise, but it’s really the highest. Most big-budget franchise filmmaking these days amounts to ticking off a series of boxes. Here, Johnson has

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