Solo marks Star Wars' return to sleaze

Hutt! Hutt!

Alden Ehrenreich and Joonas Suotamo.
(Image credit: Jonathan Olley)

The newest entry in the Star Wars series, Solo: A Star Wars Story, has something that other recent entries lacked: sleaze.

This is a relative term, of course. The Star Wars universe continues to be largely devoid of sex, as well as any violence bloody enough to threaten its PG-13 rating. But many of the earlier Star Wars pictures were able to at least create the illusion of sci-fi sleaziness with their glimpses at various facets of the galaxy's criminal underworld.

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Jesse Hassenger

Jesse Hassenger's film and culture criticism has appeared in The Onion's A.V. Club, Brooklyn Magazine, and Men's Journal online, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, where he also writes fiction, edits textbooks, and helps run SportsAlcohol.com, a pop culture blog and podcast.