Review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) by Louis Menand for The New York Review of Books — 14 Aug 2018
From the point of view of the series as a whole, the new movie is pure backstory. And in spite of all the zipping and zapping, its own plot barely advances an inch.
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This review of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) was written by Louis Menand and published by The New York Review of Books on 14 August 2018.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace has generally received mixed reviews.
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