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69
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47
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91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
88
Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
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83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
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82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
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79
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78
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77
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77
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75
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74
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74
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74
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74
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74
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71
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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64
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63
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63
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62
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62
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61
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60
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59
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58
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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56
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55
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54
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54
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54
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52
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50
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48
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47
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42
Little Ashes
42
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40
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40
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38
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36
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28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
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22
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18
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16
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xx
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xx
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xx
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xx
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sci-fi violence and some intense images
Starring
Ewan McGregor,
Natalie Portman,
Hayden Christensen,
Ian McDiarmid,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Jimmy Smits,
Frank Oz,
and
Anthony Daniels
The final entry in the prequel trilogy chronicles that downfall of the Republic as the Clone Wars rage on and Anakin Skywalker makes the transition to the dark side of the force.
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Fantasy
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Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
George Lucas
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| DIRECTED BY: |
George Lucas
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 1, 2005
Theatrical: May 19, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
140 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
All the "Star Wars" movies will continue to entertain us for many years to come. They were grand fun, and this last one's a corker.
100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
A pop masterpiece.
100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The movie grabs us from its heart-pounding opening sequence and pulls us inexorably along its trajectory with the grip of the last gruesome act of a Greek tragedy. Its fascination is not what happens but HOW it happens.
91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The darkest, most operatic, and technologically richest "Star Wars" movie to date, "Sith" is grim, stirring entertainment and a nearly complete vindication of everything its creator has been saying for six years about where the series was heading and what its final shape would be.
90
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
For my generation, Revenge of the Sith is a brilliant consummation to a promise made a long time ago, far, far away, in a galaxy called 1977.
90
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Lucas is a major figure, and Revenge of the Sith may be some kind of historic achievement -- the first movie in which it is fully impossible to tell where flesh ends and digital paint begins.
90
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The final episode of George Lucas' cinematic epic "Star Wars" ends the six-movie series on such a high note that one feels like yelling out, "Rewind!" Yes, rewind through more than 13 hours of bravery, treachery, new worlds, odd creatures and human frailty.
90
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Emerges as the best in the overall series since "The Empire Strikes Back."
90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
This is by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes Mr. Lucas has directed. That's right (and my inner 11-year-old shudders as I type this): it's better than "Star Wars."
88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Even for non-fans, Revenge of the Sith is engrossing, and fans of the series will likely be over the moon -- and into another galaxy -- with this film.
88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Only now can we truly step back and admire the full tapestry that it has taken George Lucas and his ILM wizards nearly three decades to weave.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Episode III has more action per square minute, I'd guess, than any of the previous five movies, and it is spectacular. The special effects are more sophisticated than in the earlier movies, of course, but not necessarily more effective.
88
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
Once Palpatine's machinations set the cogs in motion for the creation of Vader, and the Clone Wars start getting bloody, Sith commences to cook in a way that no Star Wars movie has since "Empire."
88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The real deal, an often awkward but nonetheless terrifically compelling high-stakes human drama.
80
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Far and away the best of the Star Wars prequels (tough chore, that) and also holds its own with the hallowed films of the original trilogy.
80
Empire
Colin Kennedy
Star Wars really does begin here.
80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Lucas manages to turn the audience's familiarity to his advantage: like a jigsaw puzzle whose final form has always been known, the fun is in discovering how the last pieces fit.
75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Arguably the darkest episode in the entire series (and the first to carry a PG-13 rating) the visually stunning "Sith" is also the fastest-paced and most accessible.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
For all its doom and gloom, Revenge of the Sith turns out to have a happy ending after all, giving Star Wars the send-off it deserves.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
On the action-adventure level it's a sure-fire delight for fans, a punchy entertainment for average sci-fi buffs, and a colorful rocket-ride for moviegoers who just want a good time on Saturday night.
70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Two prequels' worth of scene setting pays off in the politically resonant Revenge of the Sith.
70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Though Sith finally finds some life in the old saga, was it worth it in the end? Did we have to go through all that to get back where we began?
70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The battle sequences and lightsaber battles are gripping, and for every scene that doesn't deliver the goods, there's another that hums with surprising intensity.
70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The most energetic of the prequels, the only one at all worth watching. But that doesn't mean it is without the weaknesses that scuttled its pair of predecessors. Quite the contrary.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The one figure in Revenge of the Sith who taps the true spirit of Star Wars is Ewan McGregor: With his beautiful light, clipped delivery, he plays Alec Guinness' playfulness, making Obi-Wan a marvel of benevolent moxie.
67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
A vast improvement over the previous two outings, but still and all, it's no "Star Wars."
63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Though it starts slowly, it lumbers toward greatness in the last third and restores him [Lucas] briefly to the top of his class.
63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
And still the dialogue is astonishingly feeble, the acting unforgivably wooden. To paraphrase Yoda, the only creature with truly human dimensions ever since Harrison Ford's cowboy-mechanic Han Solo departed the galaxy: Bored I am.
60
Slate
David Edelstein
What a shock when George Lucas finds his footing and the saga once again takes hold.
60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The scenery, effects and balletic, iconic combats are perfectly wonderful, but there's an emotional black hole where the hero should be.
50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Revenge was supposed to be the one that really socked it to us, about Anakin's almost biblical fall from grace. But the movie never rises to its powerful occasion.
50
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Is it enough to make us like a thing we used to love? For most, that rekindling of an old flame will be good enough.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The greatest story ever has finally been told. Or, if you prefer, the damn thing has come to its merciful end.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
For the casual viewer who feels like maybe all the Sith hoopla is worth checking out, well, it's like tuning in to the season finale of "24" without having watched a minute of its lead-up episodes.
50
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
Lucas is a brilliant technician but a poor philosopher, and his lurchingly thought-out rendering of futuristic politics prevents the entire series from achieving the greatness to which it aspires. (You don’t make anything this big, for this long, without aiming for the planet Masterpiece.)
50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Until the last half-hour, when Lucas actually does establish a emotional connection between the landmark he created in 1977 and the prequel investment portfolio he laid out in 1999, the movie is one spectacularly designed letdown after another.
50
Village Voice
Ed Halter
Even setting aside the clumsy inconsistency of its interior logic, Sith is an underachievement of escapist entertainment.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The movie drags.
40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
I suspect this picture is pretty close to what fans were hoping for, and for their sake, I'm glad it's markedly better than the two that preceded it. But Revenge of the Sith is still crap.
10
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones." True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.
 The average user rating for this movie is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 778 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
P CLASS="usercomment">Oliver L. gave it a10:
This is the best film of the year and the best Star Wars film yet, even surpassing The Empire Strikes Back.
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