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Solo squib
The latest in the Star Wars franchise disappoints MARIA DUARTE
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A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist
Solo: A Star Wars Story (12A)
Directed by Ron Howard
FROM a galaxy far, far away comes another spin-off Star Wars film, this time providing Han Solo's origin story but if you are expecting a groundbreaking and trailblazing standalone adventure then “much to learn you still have.”
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