Admit One 12/20
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Richard E. Grant, Keri Russell, Naomi Ackie, Kelly Marie Tran, Ian McDiarmid, Billy Dee Williams
Directed by: JJ Abrams
Plot: The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga.
Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 57%
Critic Consensus: “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker suffers from a frustrating lack of imagination, but concludes this beloved saga with fan-focused devotion”
Cats
Starring: Francesca Hayward, Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellan, Jason DeRulo, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson, James Corden
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Plot: A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
RT Freshness: 19%
Critic Consensus: “Despite its fur-midable cast, this Cats adaptation is a clawful mistake that will leave most viewers begging to be put out of their mew-sery”
Bombshell
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Kate McKinnon, John Lithgow, Connie Britton
Directed by: Jay Roach
Plot: A group of women decide to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
RT Freshness: 65%
Critic Consensus: “Bombshell benefits from a terrific cast and a worthy subject, but its impact is muffled by a frustrating inability to go deeper than the sensationalistic surface”
