“The first 30 minutes of this movie are staggering. It’s all scale, lived-in myth, latent history. Every shot feels projected through the hollow of your own bones. And then the rest of the movie is an overly busy rehash with no sense of shape or urgency. … BUT. If this movie is hopelessly nostalgic for its own franchise, that self-serving theme should nevertheless continue to be validated by this sequel trilogy’s focus on the cyclical handoff from one generation to another, which was always destined to be the true narrative of the Star Wars saga.”