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    The Last Jedi

    The Last Jedi starts where The Force Awakens left off. The rebels are in full retreat, and Rey has discovered Luke Skywalker as a monkish hermit on a faraway island of a really faraway planet. The question is what comes next...

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    By Joe Morgenstern • Dec 16, 2017 • 3m Listen

    The Last Jedi, the eighth episode of the Star Wars franchise, will be thrilling for the faithful, though the answer to one of its Big Questions seems disappointing, and generously entertaining for the rest of us.

    Photo Daisy Ridley as Rey in The Last Jedi

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