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June 10, 2002
Stanley Kauffmann
Star Wars Is Impervious to Film Criticism
A review of "Episode II: Attack of the Clones."
March 11, 1985
Leon Wieseltier
Nuclear Idealism, Nuclear Realism
June 18, 1977
Stanley Kauffmann
Innocences
'Star Wars' is a corny, unexceptional film for men who miss adolescence

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