Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) poster
2019 · adventure · action · sci-fi · space

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Directed by J.J. Abrams2h 22m2019
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • inventive
  • epic-stakes

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

Our read · Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive adventure · action · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Carrie FisherMark HamillDaisy RidleyAdam DriverJohn Boyega
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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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