Matthew Rudoy is one of ScreenRant‘s Movie & TV News Editors. He covers the latest in movie & TV news, with a focus on major franchises like Star Wars, The Boys, and Game of Thrones, and also writes some features and reviews. He wrote lists for ScreenRant from 2017-2022, became a news writer in 2023, a senior staff writer in 2024, and an editor in 2025.
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The Force is not with The Mandalorian and Grogu‘s Rotten Tomatoes score.
The titular duo leads the first Star Wars movie in seven years, with the last release being The Rise of Skywalker in 2019. In their latest adventure, Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal, Brendan Wayne, and Lateef Crowder) and Grogu work with the New Republic to take on the Imperial Remnant. Colonel Ward (Sigourney Weaver) assigns them their newest mission, which involves Jabba the Hutt’s son Rotta the Hutt (Jeremy Allen White).
Now, The Mandalorian and Grogu has debuted with a 58% score based on 43 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. While the score will likely fluctuate as more reviews are added, this is one of Star Wars‘ worst movie scores in the Disney era.
In ScreenRant‘s The Mandalorian and Grogu review, Liz Declan gives the movie seven out of 10 stars and writes that “audiences who are hoping for a fun, lighthearted film starring some of Star Wars’ most beloved new characters are going to love it. All things considered, that’s good enough.” She also highlights how the “action sequences throughout the movie are absolutely where Jon Favreau’s film shines.”
With the story being an extension of Disney+’s The Mandalorian series, there has been a question of whether the film can feel like more than a television movie. Polygon‘s review by Jake Kleinman addresses this, arguing that “The Mandalorian and Grogu is a self-contained story that more than rises to the challenge of feeling like a capital M Movie (a commendable achievement for what could have just been a streaming special in another timeline) but fails to feel like a Star Wars Movie in anything but branding.”
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