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Star Wars: The Last Jedi (12A)
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He’s back, still played splendidly by Mark Hamill, and now a sullen, bearded recluse living alone on a lonely rocky island — “the most unfindable place in the galaxy” – until, that is, Rey (Daisy Ridley) arrives to nag him into inducting her into the ways of the Jedi.
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