Lifelong Star Wars fan here & I loved it!

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2019)

Just to preface this review: at the age of 9, I saw Star Wars in the theater 7 times (4 of the times by myself as I couldn't get anyone to go with me again. Keep in mind, that movies stayed at theaters for months at a time back then). I have also read 11 Star Wars books (none of them considered cannon as I read this 18-20 years ago).
My husband (also a lifelong SW movie and book fan, having read about 50 SW books) and I loved this movie. I haven't loved all of the movies. The prequels were disappointing due to some of the worst dialogue and child acting I have seen (Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd and Hayden Christiansen). The Last Jedi was middle-of-the-road for me, though it does rate higher than Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Thankfully this movie, like The Force Awakens, captured the feeling of the original trilogy and what I have always loved about the SW universe and stories. I teared up with emotion in the movie, and I walked out thoroughly satisfied.
Clearly, most of the fandom doesn't agree with me. I see people picking things apart left and right. But I don't really care about the inconsistencies that critics found and ripped apart. When you have a long-running franchise, it's okay IMO to change things up a bit to enhance your stories as you go on.
The one complaint I will share is that they included too much of Princess Leia. They didn't have enough unused footage and overall it was kind of distracting. I understand that Carrie Fisher's death left the storytellers in a quandary as to how to handle the character, but I think they should have used less of her. And oh, I guess another small complaint: the way that they completely dropped the Finn-Rose romance was a bit distracting as well, but I didn't love that romance in the first place anyway.
Overall: a Solid 9.5 stars for me.