In Defense of The Last Jedi
The Star Wars Movie that Broke Star Wars is the Best Star Wars since Empire
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I write about movies with dinosaurs, spaceships, toxic relationships, the sound of guns reloading, time travel, robots with feelings, villains with bad accents, and heist montages.
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