Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

STAR WARS EPISODE VII: THE FORCE AWAKENS
    D: J.J. Abrams                                                        (2015)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega,
    Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Domhnall Gleeson,
    Carrie Fisher, Lupita Nyong'o, Max Von Sydow,
    Peter Mayhew, Andy Serkis, Mark Hamill
Or maybe you could call this one "The Search For Skywalker", because just about everybody in the galaxy appears to be out there trying to track down Master Luke. That includes a couple of old faces who haven't been seen around the franchise for decades, as well as a few new ones, the most welcome being Daisy Ridley as a feisty scavenger named Rey, who will be back in future "Star Wars" movies, unless the producers are completely crazy, and they're not. Abrams, who breathed new life into "Star Trek" a few years back, again combines nonstop action with an underlying affection for what's gone before, and it works. I'm not a huge fan of the "Star Wars" movies - I'm too old for them to be a part of my adolescent mythology - but as a cultural force - there's that word - they're sort of inevitable, and this is the best one yet. See if the part where General Hux addresses the assembled storm troopers doesn't remind you of "Triumph of the Will".