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name: "Star Wars"
canonical: "https://film.one/collections/star-wars"
films: 8
series: 0
years: "1977–2019"
average_fi1m_score: 69
updated: "2026-09-19T08:56:09.002511+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Star Wars

Three trilogies, two standalones and the television that has kept the galaxy busy since.

**Which order?** Release order is the order most people mean. Episode order (I to IX) is there for the completists; start with A New Hope either way.

Best on Fi1m: [*The Empire Strikes Back*](https://film.one/film/the-empire-strikes-back.md) (92).

## The films, in release order

1. [*Star Wars*](https://film.one/film/star-wars.md) (1977) — Fi1m 88: George Lucas’s space adventure is funny, exciting and easy to follow, with creatures and machinery worth a closer look. A few stiff exchanges are a small price for such well-managed fun.
2. [*The Empire Strikes Back*](https://film.one/film/the-empire-strikes-back.md) (1980) — Fi1m 92: Irvin Kershner makes the machinery frightening and the people worth worrying about. A few solemn lessons slow *The Empire Strikes Back*, but its action, humour and feeling justify the darker turn.
3. [*Return of the Jedi*](https://film.one/film/return-of-the-jedi.md) (1983) — Fi1m 75: Richard Marquand’s space adventure is good fun when it gives its creatures and chases room. Mark Hamill supplies the conviction, but the thin romance and overindulged Ewoks make this a less brisk evening than it should be.
4. [*Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace*](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace.md) (1999) — Fi1m 52: George Lucas’s space adventure has fine action and a dispiriting amount of explanation. Liam Neeson and John Williams help, but neither can make the stiff conversations worth sitting through.
5. [*Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones*](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones.md) (2002) — Fi1m 54: A clear improvement on *The Phantom Menace*: the Coruscant chase is a proper set piece, Ewan McGregor and Christopher Lee know exactly what they are doing, and the last act delivers. Between them sits a romance so stiff it stalls the film for an hour.
6. [*Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith*](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith.md) (2005) — Fi1m 67: The last of Lucas’s prequels is the only one that works, and it works late. The first ninety minutes are meetings and love scenes written by a man who dislikes both; the final forty are opera, and they almost pay for the rest.
7. [*Star Wars: The Last Jedi*](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-last-jedi.md) (2017) — Fi1m 76: Rian Johnson’s middle chapter throws away the lightsaber and half the audience’s expectations, and its scenes with Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver are the best this series has had in decades. Its casino subplot is not, and it runs 152 minutes.
8. [*Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker*](https://film.one/film/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker.md) (2019) — Fi1m 50: J.J. Abrams closes the saga at a sprint, undoing most of what the previous film dared and replacing it with a treasure hunt. It looks superb, Driver and Ridley are better than the script, and at the end we found we had felt almost nothing.

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