Star Wars
Vox’s coverage of the Star Wars movie franchise: film news, updates, reviews, interviews, trailers, and more.


The franchise changed not only how movies are made, but which movies are made.


“I think in my mouth, so I don’t lie.”


Enjoy it while you can.


An impressive tribute to John Williams’s Oscar-winning score.


The LA Times put together an impressively detailed guide to all things Star Wars.


Check out five top picks for each of the top four streaming services.


An argument with Cass Sunstein about Star Wars.


Garden-variety gun violence has killed vastly more people in the United States than terrorist attacks.


The movie arrives in December. Whet your appetite with a bunch of new footage.


The fear of a Jedi coup led to the downfall of the Galactic Republic.


There were lots of problems with the portrayal of the Senate in the Star Wars prequels, but the worst was the lack of parties.


There were a couple of big surprises.


And don’t be surprised if we see something from the Justice League.


Harmy’s Despecialized Edition is a high-definition, color-corrected, recut of the original version of Star Wars. People should be allowed to watch it.


The two franchises are both obsessed with political and generational change.


Every wonder what the difference between each color is? It turns out there’s an answer.


This is the closest we’ll get to the new Star Wars until December.


Check out how much the film suffers without John Williams’s iconic score.


It was revealed at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim.


It’s Yoda like you’ve never seen him before.


It’s Oscar nominee Felicity Jones!


Also, a whole bunch of promising sounding projects from great directors and actors. And Star Wars.


Is this seriously just 90 seconds long?!


It’s here!


They did not go with Star Wars: Guardians of the Galaxy in the Age of Ultron.


Every on-screen death in the Star Wars trilogy, from Greedo to Emperor Palpatine, with the Girl Talk track “Play Your Part, Part I” in the background.


The Emmy Award-winning Star Wars Uncut is back with a follow-up to its 2010 fan-made movie.


Star Wars is exactly what Lupita needs to achieve the superstardom necessary to make “Americanah” a huge success.


The story that took place long ago in a galaxy far, far away seems to have a lot of problems with race and diversity that we can’t shake.


Michael Heilemann’s writing a book on “how George Lucas and his artists perfected the process of transforming existing books, comics, movies and ideas into the fantasy spectacular that is Star Wars,” and made this mashup as part of the project.


Until this weekend, I had never seen a Star Wars movie. I grew up in a household that loved music, and movies, and all kinds of American cultural products, but we missed the Star Wars phenomenon.