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On Movies & Media

The Chicago Reader's political Star Wars

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Jeffrey Overstreet

21 May 2005
Filed under: On Movies & Media • Star Wars • J. R. Jones • Revenge of the Sith • The Chicago Reader

Surprise, surprise... The Chicago Reader's J.R. Jones, in the tradition of that paper's preoccupation with political readings of film, sees Revenge of the Sith as an attack on the White House.

And so, of course, he really likes it.

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