‘The Ninth Jedi’ has the bones of a great Star Wars story: a fascinating new mythology, a compelling heroine, and an alternate take on the sequel trilogy that actually understands what made that era of the franchise so frustrating.
There’s a world somewhere in which House of the Dragon actually is about the tragic and self-inflicted destruction of a dynasty’s mandate. This isn’t that.
With his third film of the decade releasing, at this point it's fair to say that Sir Christopher Nolan is only in the business of crafting masterworks.