Even the Best Star Wars Gets Graded On a Curve

Rogue One character with a coherent motivation

like 1.5 explainable motives between all of them

Spoilers, from beginning to end.

Rogue One is not my favorite Star Wars film; that’s firmly The Last Jedi, because it’s beautifully shot, weird, a wise statement about franchise movies, and an acknowledgment that the Rey-Kylo relationship is the whole point of the sequel trilogy. (And flawed. So, so incredi…