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Star Wars (1977)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   A- Source Brief Review Grade* BBC Matt Ford "Star Wars isn't the best film ever made, but it is universally loved." more... A   E! Online "When the opening scroll of Star Wars mentions "a galaxy far, far away," it might unwittingly refer to the '70s, a time when "the force" went hand in hand with "the Fonz," and hokeyness ran unchecked." more... A   ReelViews James Berardinelli "It's impossible to estimate the full ramifications of Star Wars, but that single movie has surely influenced much about the making and marketing of motion pictures over the last two decades." more... A   San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack "So many years, so much exposure, so many spin-offs, special-effects trends and continuous warp-speed hype have made it nearly impossible to look at Star Wars as just a movie anymore." more... A   Washington Post Rita Kempley "Chewbacca and the robots aside, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader might have walked right out of Arthurian legend." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)