Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 22 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 254 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

59

George Lucas makes it easy to experience Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith as a rush of deliverance -- even if the movie itself doesn't fully deliver.
Full Review » 7 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

80

This is by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes Mr. Lucas has directed. That's right: it's better than Star Wars.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

20

No magic, little light, but an awful lot of heavy industry.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

88

It's the darkest of the six-film opus, but it just may be the best of the lot.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

.. even though Revenge is a better experience than Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones, it doesn't add anything that satisfying or compelling to the big picture.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

Revenge of the Sith is a brilliant consummation to a promise made a long time ago, far, far away, in a galaxy called 1977.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

88

It's good. I mean really good.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ed Halter Village Voice (Top Critic)

Anakin's defection from Jediism to Sithdom should provide the film's backbone, but neither the script nor Christensen delivers the needed nuance.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

63

...the dialogue is astonishingly feeble, the acting unforgivably wooden.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

63

Revenge of the Sith is more of the same: wildly flamboyant effects serving weak characters, bad acting and obtuse plotting.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

84

More than a first-rate wrap-up job, it stands on its own as a dazzling piece of showmanship.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)

75

Just when you thought it was safe to ridicule everything Star Wars, Lucas returns from his flirtation with the Dark Side by crafting a terrific caper to his monumental series.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ken Tucker New York Magazine (Top Critic)

Lucas is a brilliant technician but a poor philosopher, and his lurchingly thought-out rendering of futuristic politics prevents the entire series from achieving the greatness to which it aspires.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Anthony Lane New Yorker (Top Critic)

So much here is guaranteed to cause either offense or pain...
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

88

George Lucas has achieved what few artists do; he has created and populated a world of his own.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

100

...the scariest, most exciting, most visually prodigious of the sextet, with action sequences that explode off the screen, characters who finally awaken your sentiments...
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

75

Lucas has woven into the action and effects a relatively thoughtful story about a young man meant for greatness but corrupted by his own fear and confusion, a story more Shakespearean than Arthurian.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

50

Lucas still can't write. His dialogue crashes and burns like an X-wing zapped out of the sky by a star destroyer.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

75

It provides fun and closure, wrapping up the saga's many narrative strings in an entertaining finale.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

67

All those who wondered whether writer-director George Lucas was going to end his sci-fi career in a downward tailspin can rest easy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

90

It took 22 years, but the Jedi has finally returned.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

Not far into the first third of the movie, I didn't think I was going to make it all the way through the percussive nonstop action.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Whatever one thought of the previous two installments, this dynamic picture irons out most of the problems, and emerges as the best in the overall series since The Empire Strikes Back.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

... the visually stunning Sith is also the fastest-paced and most accessible.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

It's better than Episode I and not quite as good as Episode II. What it isn't is a lot of fun.
Full Review » 7 years ago