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‘Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker’ Spoiler-Free Review: This Finale Falls Flat, Despite Having All the Right Pieces

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker marks the end of the 9-film Skywalker Saga, and after Rian Johnson’s disastrous The Last Jedi, fans were really hoping this would be the film that redeemed this new trilogy and ended it on a high note. To put it simply, it did not. Instead, the trilogy ends being the same thing it has been the whole time: a jumbled mess with no direction on where to go.