Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Galactic Empire has now become the resistance 30 years after its defeat. The last of the jedi is to be contacted.
17 September 1971, Bangor, North Wales, UK
5 August 1986, London, England, UK
12 May 1983, Dublin, Ireland
22 July 1969, Santa Barbara, California, USA
21 February 1946, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
1 January 1986, Birmingham, England, UK
14 February 1970, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
11 July 1966, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 November 1983, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
10 October 1967, Riverside, New Jersey, USA
17 March 1964, Liverpool, England, UK
30 December 1979, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
November 14, 2016
The Force Awakens takes its legions of rabid fanboys very seriously, throwing them meaty bone after bone.
July 19, 2016
It's a big Star Wars universe out there and Abrams has just made it bigger again with this mix of fan boy homage and a fresh and quirky vision of his own.
July 14, 2016
The Force Awakens is fun. I'm not sure that it's great. ... But on the heels of the prequels, well, maybe fun is all we really need.
January 10, 2017
I've been sold on the rich possibilities of these new movies. I'm letting the Force in this time.
December 19, 2015
With The Force Awakens, Abrams has begun one of the most important reclamation projects of our time: the complete erasure from cultural memory of The Phantom Menace and its sequels.
February 24, 2017
Abrams makes the Star Wars movie every fan wants to see, and it succeeds effortlessly at doing more than merely cashing in on nostalgia.
December 17, 2015
I bet you'll have fun - I did, mostly. But it's the fun of seeing something fairly successfully redone, with the promise of more of the same to come.
December 21, 2015
The new movie, as an act of pure storytelling, streams by with fluency and zip.
December 18, 2016
JJ Abrams's sequel has, thank the Lord, delivered, with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley proving up to the challenge, too.
December 20, 2015
That's what's so impressive about the tricky balancing act Abrams has pulled off with The Force Awakens: He's made a movie that's simultaneously gripping and a huge release. We are in good hands, at last.
December 17, 2015
It's everything the kid in us goes to the movies for -- marvelous adventure that leaves us surprised, scared and euphoric.
January 04, 2016
Despite the copious servings of tragic threats and good feelings, the production sinks under the weight of its emotional calculation.
