'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' review: The space saga straightens up and flies right, more or less

"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" does the job. It wraps up the trio of trilogies begun in 1977 in a confident, soothingly predictable way, doing all that cinematically possible to avoid poking the bear otherwise known as tradition-minded quadrants of the "Star Wars" fan base.

Thanks to Daisy Ridley, primarily, director and co-writer J.J. Abrams' safety-first approach to rounding out this clump of Disney's crucial income stream retains something like a human pulse. There's nothing as cute as Baby Yoda or anything in