<P> On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Star Wars: The Last Jedi has an approval rating of 91% based on 372 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1 / 10 . The website's critical consensus reads, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi honors the saga's rich legacy while adding some surprising twists--and delivering all the emotion - rich action fans could hope for ." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 56 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". </P> <P> Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film four out of four stars, praising the surprises and risks that it took, writing that "The movie works equally well as an earnest adventure full of passionate heroes and villains and a meditation on sequels and franchise properties...(The film) is preoccupied with questions of legacy, legitimacy and succession, and includes multiple debates over whether one should replicate or reject the stories and symbols of the past ." Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, praising the cast and the direction: "You're in hyper - skilled hands with Johnson who makes sure you leave the multiplex feeling euphoric . The middle part of the current trilogy, The Last Jedi ranks with the very best Star Wars epics (even the pinnacle that is The Empire Strikes Back) by pointing the way ahead to a next generation of skywalkers--and, thrillingly, to a new hope ." </P> <P> Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun - Times gave the film 3.5 / 4 stars, saying, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi...doesn't pack quite the same emotional punch (as The Force Awakens) and it lags a bit in the second half, (but) this is still a worthy chapter in the Star Wars franchise, popping with exciting action sequences, sprinkled with good humor and containing more than a few nifty' callbacks' to previous characters and iconic moments ." For The Hollywood Reporter, Todd McCarthy said, "Loaded with action and satisfying in the ways its loyal audience wants it to be, writer - director Rian Johnson's plunge into George Lucas' universe is generally pleasing even as it sometimes strains to find useful and / or interesting things for some of its characters to do ." </P> <P> Will Gompertz, arts editor of BBC News, gave the film 4 / 5 stars, writing "Rian Johnson...has not ruined your Christmas with a turkey . His gift to you is a cracker, a blockbuster movie packed with invention, wit, and action galore ." Mark Kermode, British film critic, gave the film 4 / 5 stars saying Johnson "proves himself the master of the balancing act, keeping the warring forces of this intergalactic franchise in near - perfect harmony ." The unpredictability of the plot was appreciated by reviewers such as Alex Leadbeater of Screen Rant, who commented specifically that the death of Snoke was "the best movie twist in years". </P>

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