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  • ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Review: The Force Is Half-Awake

    The smuggler-turned-hero gets an origin tale with few surprises.

    Watch a clip from the movie ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story.’ Photo: Walt Disney Pictures

    The welcome news in the matter of “Solo: A Star Wars Story” is that they found a good kid to grow into Harrison Ford’s boots. That term isn’t meant to diminish the actor’s maturity. At 28, Alden Ehrenreich brings impressive skills behind a boyish face to a risky role. But the hero of this origin story about Han Solo has been conceived as a cocky kid with brash charms that foreshadow one of the most distinctive rogues in movie history, and Mr. Ehrenreich pulls it off, to the extent that anyone can consummate an impossible act of anticipatory mimicry. He can lower his pleasing voice to a con man’s sardonic register; his...

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