Little whoops sound from people unselfconscious enough to do stuff like that, which in the dark is a lot of them. Magic, it turns out-in all its meanings-is what makes Star Wars so special, so distinct, so disappointing when it fails, and so thrilling when it succeeds. It's just got such tremendous multivalence: movie magic, the magical "Force," the magic of suspension of belief, CGI wizardry, et cetera, ad Entertainment Weekly-ish nauseum. That word comes up a lot in any discussion of what makes Star Wars special. So the question looms: can a modern movie capture what made the first trilogy so magical? ![]() It's been a decade since our last Star Wars movie, and arguably three times that since one that wasn’t a heavily-qualified “good.” If do-overs existed for movies, then The Force Awakens is pretty much the do-over for 1999's The Phantom Menace. Now, explaining why it’s good is the real uphill battle. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a spectacularly good movie. I don't want you skimming paragraphs trying to find the sentence where I say it's good, so here it is.
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