“There are some issues here as well. It’s cheesy, but in the way all Star Wars movies are cheesy, and charming enough to pull it off. Formulaic in the same ways. And some of the humor works better than the rest.”
“But, better than anything else, here is a Star Wars movie that pays much more than lip service to the moral grays of fighting a war, the nature of hope—and what it actually looks like when things are fucking terrible—and what, in the end, is really worth fighting for.”