J.J. Abrams Calls Out Sexist ‘The Last Jedi’ Critics as Threatened by Female Leads

It’s now clear enough to me that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the best of all the Star Wars movies released since A New Hope.

That’s just one person’s opinion.

Plenty of other people were not on board with Rian Johnson’s rather radical deconstruction and obliteration of the mythology that had carried the Star Wars films’ narratives for a few decades.

Some of them had genuine gripes: the storytelling was a bit similar to the original trilogy, the film’s politics only went up to the water’s edge, and the writing leaned on a …

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