Arguably the best in the series.

Rating: 10/10 (16 February 2020)

Don't get me wrong I truly love The Empire Strikes Back after all it has one of the best twists in cinema history. But I feel A New Hope somewhat lives in the shadow of it despite perhaps being a more balanced movie.
For anyone my age or younger there are things we tend to forget when watching A New Hope. We now live in a time that has easy access to a ton of movies of a similar genre and the improvement of technology means that modern films look more polished, but in 1977? This was an original, there wasn't movies like this and really the capability wasn't there to make one. They had to start from scratch and find new ways of filming to make this vision a reality.
I envy those who grew up in that era, the movie is still so powerful today. I can't imagine what it would have been like to see it when there was nothing else remotely like it. Plus to have been a part of the star wars cultural phenomenon, seeing people camp out for the sequels etc. We simply don't experience anything like that any more, probably because there has been no other film like it since.