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OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh |
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5/5 | "Lucas ha cumplido la profecía: ha traído el equilibrio a la Fuerza." |
| Cinenganos |
| Alex Ramirez |
| "Everything that has a beginning has a middle - and while this centerpiece to the Star Wars saga may indeed be middling, it still beats Return of the Jedi anyday." |
| Movie Gazette |
| Anton Bitel |
A | "Sith takes a while to sink in, but once you get used to its rhythm, it provides the most satisfying Star Wars adventure of the last 20 years." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
4/5 | "Star Wars, people, is back." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
C | "a visually delicious film filled with ostensibly crowd pleasing (read boring) lightsaber battles..." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Lucas' attempted apolitical veneer only underlines the point: wars are political, even in movies." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
4/5 | "The good George Lucas usually wins out, even if the story focuses on the Dark Side of the Force." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
5/5 | "This is downright brilliant filmmaking, an awesome spectacle that manages to balance thrills and emotion with a steady hand." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A | "At last … Lucas brings forth the long-awaited, well-earned kick-*** conclusion to the latest Star Wars trilogy. Fans will cheer!" |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
3/4 | "An ideal, convincing finale for this franchise." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
2.5/4 | "The best thing about Episode III? Jar Jar Binks is barely in it.
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| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
3.5/4 | "...not only the best of the prequels but of the entire trilogy." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
B+ | "Redeems some of the luster lost from the previous two installments." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3/4 | "A slam-bang summer blockbuster. Completes, deepens, and enriches the series beyond the pop-cultural phenomenon it has long-since made for itself." |
| DustinPutman.com |
| Dustin Putman |
2.5/4 | "I imagine that Revenge of the Sith is very much the film Lucas's fans want to see, but are some of them ready for an anti-Bush diatribe?" |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
B- | "A good film, but just not the classic it could have been." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Edward Havens |
B+ | "Almost exactly what it needs to be, a powerful middle film to end one trilogy and presage another." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "Not only a perfect bridge to the original trilogy but will draw favorable comparisons to the fabled excellence of The Empire Strikes Back." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B+ | "It's exciting, foreboding, grand and important, a part of our culture and identity no matter how loudly cineastes scream bloody murder." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3/4 | "...an enticingly dark and absorbing spectacle that should satisfy the casual Star Wars fanatic who fancies an action-packed package full of emotional promise and prose." |
| TheWorldJournal.com |
| Frank Ochieng |
C | "Technically magnificent but dramatically inert, it's a lumberingly predictable finale to the space saga that peaked in 1980 and has been going downhill ever since." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
2/5 | "Lacking in dramatic punch, animated only by mind-numbing action sequences and endless light-saber fights." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
B+ | "An unexpectedly sweet pleasure... a dark and gripping slice of space opera, it successfully avoids the pitfalls of its predecessors." |
| Mixed Reviews |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3.5/4 | "A rousing and tragic sendoff to a beloved franchise, and the best installment in the Star Wars series since 1980's The Empire Strikes Back." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/4 | "a unique film in the way its primary objective is to certify what we already know, and the pleasure it generates is not in the surprise of what happens, but in how it happens" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
| "Like the other two so-called 'prequels', this one still doesn't feel like a Star Wars movie . . ." |
| Sci-Fi Movie Page |
| James O'Ehley |
2.5/4 | "The bar has been set so low in mainstream Hollywood movies that it's not even worth seriously analyzing this stuff" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
'3/4' | "Sure to please diehard fans and fringe folk alike." |
| Aufmuth.com |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
10/10 | "Goodbye, Star Wars, and thanks for everything. It's been a wonderful ride." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
9/10 | "My favorite of the three most recent Star Wars movies, Revenge of the Sith mixes all of the best elements from its predecessors." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
2.5/4 | "This one had the most potential, and in that way it is the most disappointing." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
74/100 | "This film finally creates a saga out of Star Wars, and that saga deserves its recognition as one of the finest ever to be delivered to cinema screens." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
7/10 | "...clearly the best of the prequel trio, and for me almost as good as Return of the Jedi. But this is largely because there are no Ewoks involved." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
3.5/5 | "full review in Greek" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
| "A worthy end." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4/5 | "Acquits the recent stinkiness of the series pretty well. I know, high praise indeed. But consider this - I knew what was going to happen, and I still cared." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3.5/4.0 | "Limbs are lost, people die, destruction is widespread, and evil reigns... all this violence is courtesy a mere PG-13 rating (thanks, MPAA!)" |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
5/5 | "Revenge of the Sith is so good, it almost redeems Episode I... Almost." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
3.5/4 | "Should satisfy all the fans and breed new ones. The Force is strong in this one." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B | "...writer/director George Lucas has been promising a darker film and Hayden Christensen's critical vindication. He delivers on the first promise." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
3.5/5 | "Heretical though it sounds, [Sith] may come closest of all the films to achieving the balance between gee-whiz sci-fi spectacle and mythic resonance to which Lucas aspired." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "A great Star Wars film and, dare I say, a great film onto itself." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
9/10 | "In years to come George Lucas's farewell to his STAR WARS series may be considered his finest entry." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
3/4 | "One leaves the theater with a 30-year sense of closure and satisfaction" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "[T]here is a haunting, disconcerting bittersweetness to the film that is impossible to shake. It’s a particularly GenX response, I suspect..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
| "Rich in cityscapes and costumes." |
| Classic Film and Television |
| Michael E. Grost |
4/5 | "I am pleased to report that George Lucas has found his way back from the Dark Side." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "There’s some sadness knowing that the Star Wars pictures are done. However, I get intense pleasure knowing that the series concludes on the highest of high notes." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B | "George Lucas is much more interested in the reflection of some planet's third moon on a window than in the other reasons people go to movies, like acting and script." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
C | "Nominally better than its immediate predecessors thanks to a pervasive atmosphere of catastrophic doom." |
| Lessons of Darkness |
| Nick Schager |
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OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh |
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