The Force Awakens: Your reviews

Audiences across the world have been looking forward to the latest release in the Star Wars series

The latest episode of the popular Star Wars series, The Force Awakens, has opened in London.

The first reviews of The Force Awakens, published earlier on Wednesday, hailed it as "a triumph" and "a classic". Many UK newspapers awarded it five stars.

But what do you think about the film? Here is a selection of your reviews:

Gus from Edinburgh emails:

I saw The Force Awakens at the midnight showing last night, along with all the other hardcore Star Wars fans :-)

I'm going to have to watch it a couple more times to really form a full opinion but I really enjoyed it overall. I do have some criticisms and complaints but they're very minor and infrequent. My main one is that the film is trying a little too hard to replicate the events, settings and character relationships from A New Hope (Episode IV).

I think JJ Abrams and Lucasfilm/Disney have done an excellent job of bringing the franchise back to life and can't wait for Episode VIII!

Damon Young tweets that he loved it:

As did others who enjoyed the atmosphere:

But others were less impressed:

And spoilers are to be avoided:

Compiled by Bernadette McCague