Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
dir. George Lucas (2005)
A well-paced, thrumming conclusion, albeit Padmé is cruelly reduced from strong female protagonist to mawkish fridging victim. Anakin’s movie-long capitulation to the Dark Side, meanwhile, proves nigh as perfunctory as Darth Vader’s eventual redemption. Ian McDiarmid’s insidious/gloriously unhinged Palpatine steals the show.