The least shocking fact in the world: Gareth Edwards was a visual effects artist before he was a director. The dogfights in Rogue One are incredible. Every time Edwards cuts back to the skies above Scarif, I lean forward in my chair. And then every time he cuts back down to the surface, where a bunch of thinly-sketched characters are trying to transmit a MacGuffin by way of the most ludicrously convoluted communication technology ever conceived, I just let out an exasperated sigh. Edwards makes working with highly complex digital effects look so easy. And he makes working with actors look so hard.