With recent news that a 3-D conversion of “The Phantom Menace” will be released next year—and really, is anyone surprised that George Lucas has latched on to yet another way to sell more copies of the same movies––I thought maybe we could focus on one of the few good things that sprang from the “Star Wars” universe: “Knights of the Old Republic.

“Stone” is an actor’s film. Edward Norton and Robert De Niro star, and you can tell they’re having a good time. They’ve worked together before, in the 2001 heist movie “The Score,” and that chemistry is evident in “Stone.”