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Movie Review: 'Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker'
The third movie in the third trilogy of the scrappy little space-opera-that-could — Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — opens Friday.
'The Rise Of Skywalker' Makes For An Exciting, Exhaustive, Effortful Ending
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