Movie reviews: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Ballerina, It's a Wonderful Life

Declan Burke gives his thoughts on this week's films. 

A prequel/spin-off that takes place (in a galaxy far, far away) just before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story centres on Jyn Urso (Felicity Jones), a soldier in the Rebel Alliance, whose father, Galen (Mads Mikkelsen), is regarded as a traitor for helping the Empire to build the ‘planet-killing’ Death Star.

Galen, however, has buried a potentially devastating fault in the Death Star’s design; on receiving Galen’s message, Jyn and her companions — among them Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), Chirrut (Donnie Yen) and the reprogrammed Imperial droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) — set out on a suicide mission to retrieve Galen’s blueprints.