Do you remember the days when "Star Wars" movies used to be good? Not "Star Wars" in general — the movies. "Andor" season 2 has barely stopped tugging our heartstrings with its grounded rebel stories, the well-received "Star Wars Jedi: Survivor" video game was released in 2023, and Marvel is dropping sweet (and often Darth Vader-themed) comics all the time. "Star Wars" as a franchise is doing just fine. The movies, on the other hand, could use a win.

It's been close to a decade since the franchise rolled out a truly worthwhile big-screen effort — either "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (2016) or "The Last Jedi" (2017), depending on your opinion — and more than five years since it released any movies at all. (2019's "The Rise of Skywalker" is the most recent.) That's a long dry spell for

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