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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Gets Tepid Response At Cannes

Paul Bois

Though fanboys and fangirls were certainly excited after the first premiere of “Solo: A Star Wars Story” last week, the Cannes Film Festival audience responded with a collective, “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, “the energy level in the theater was lagging” throughout the screening. While it did receive a four-minute standing ovation in the end, that’s standard fare among sycophantic film festival crowds who’d rather go along to get along than say how they really feel, unless that happens to be a Lars Von Trier film.

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