‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: Old Friends United – The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal

                                               

    

        

      

                     

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The first thing you may want to know about Disney’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” is that, yes, exactly as teased, promised and expected, the mystery of Rey’s parentage has finally been solved. (You don’t expect me to spill the beans, do you?) Yet another mystery remains. It’s how, at every moment Rey is on screen, Daisy Ridley’s young scavenger turned enchanting woman warrior manages to be the animating spirit of this vast, convoluted, sometimes cluttered, intermittently thrilling and thoroughly entertaining production that brings the Skywalker trilogy to a heroic close. Another thing is that, for all the sweep …