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December 16, 2016

At the Movies: 'Rogue One' is a dark, exhilarating blast

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

"Rogue One" ingeniously expands on a story alluded to in the original "Star Wars" film.

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” seemed suspicious on paper, like any film saddled with the dreaded “spinoff” label. For a while all the odds looked stacked against it too — reshoots, script changes and a director in Gareth Edwards whose last blockbuster “Godzilla” had visual flair but no humanity, not to mention the fact that the film would be asking us to learn a dozen new characters with strange names, none of which were Skywalker or Solo. And of course as with any franchise there's that ever-present knowledge that, in some ways, this is another line-item on a corporate profit sheet.


 
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