As a standalone, the new adventure is perfectly fine matinee fodder – but the galaxy is now so congested that we seem doomed to shiny retreads of the same old story

Jon Favreau directs a big-budget movie with a tidy small-screen consciousness. But maybe that's what "Star Wars" now is.

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