What it perhaps lacks in narrative originality it makes up for with its fresh characters, fun performances, interesting themes and jaw-dropping action and visuals.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2024

Most importantly, it passes the baton to a new generation quite seamlessly, with its new cast of characters largely expanding rather than contracting.

| May 31, 2024

This is easily one of the best films of 2015 and one of the best in the franchise. It features an outstanding cast with some excellent performances from the new actors joining the saga and powerfully nostalgic displays from the original members.

| Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2023

Starring Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, this welcome shot of fun space adventure took us back into the operatic war between dark versus light.

| Apr 20, 2023

Chewbacca being tended to by a nurse who tells him he sounds like he did something very brave, and he manages to produce a roar along with a shrug that’s cartoonishly counterintuitive. It’s the little things.

| Jan 18, 2023

A fun, action-packed table-setter for a new era of Star Wars. It has heart, emotion, and a childlike exuberance that should spark a flicker of excitement in even the most hardened person’s heart.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Everything feels familiar but new to a most satisfying degree.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2022

I cried, I laughed, and as the film concluded I couldnt help but smile knowing that J.J. had done what many were terrified he couldnt do, he brought Star Wars back to life.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 18, 2022

The Force Awakens loves the original trilogy so much its sometimes a little afraid to leave its side, but for what it needed, and continues, to accomplish, it's a hard movie to really poke holes in, even if they're evidently there.

| Feb 11, 2022

Episode VII will serve as an excellent letter of introduction so that the new generations who have not watched Star Wars are interested in the saga and approach the previous episodes with a new vision [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 2, 2022

With all the heart and soul of the series we love, it's undoubtedly set to be a favorite for the years to come.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 9, 2021

Whatever the story, rest assured Abrams will ensure that the force is as strong as ever before.

| Sep 29, 2021

The first Star Wars film in over 30 years to star the original cast alongside newcomers that include Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver...

| Sep 29, 2021

The great delight of The Force Awakens is the melding of old and new seamlessly.

| Sep 13, 2021

A new hope (for Star Wars faithful).

| Jul 28, 2021

A successful Star Wars movie isn't really about clever story or spectacle, it's about something much harder: creating a feeling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2021

Blowing away any memories of the prequels, The Force Awakens, for once, lives up to and perhaps even betters the hype.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2021

There's good news for Star Wars fans. The initials in director J.J. Abrams's name definitely do not stand for Jar Jar.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

From the blaster fire, to the Star Destroyers crossing star-speckled skies, to the rubbery alien faces populating desert communities, so much of this undertaking is recycled.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

We waited 30 years for the same basic story? Hmpf. At least it looked good and had the original cast. Without that, we'd all be crying ripoff.

| Oct 8, 2020