Tolkien

Tolkien gives the Hobbit author his own Shakespeare In Love, minus the laughs

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‘Tolkien’: A Dull Biopic That Panders To Peter Jackson Fans But Fails In Capturing The Magic Behind Middle Earth’s Creation

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That's what's so fascinating about him, how deep his creation went in him. I'm not sure it's possible to capture this on film.

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Tolkien the film is incredibly concerned with the connect-the-dots moments from the author’s life that informed his work, almost to a fault.

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This refreshing origins story, starring Nicholas Hoult, traces the early life of JRR Tolkien as he makes friends at Oxford, finds love and faces the horror of war

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Left orphaned in 1904, John Tolkien and younger brother Hilary grow up in Birmingham in care. There John (Nicholas Hoult) falls for fellow resident Edith (Lily Collins) and, a first-rate student, wins a place at Oxford. However, it is the horror of fighting on the Somme that will shape his life’s work.

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Why do people keep making films about writers?

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If there’s one thing I took away from “Tolkien,” it’s that I’ve been saying the “Lord of the Rings” author’s name wrong: it’s “Tol-keen,” not “Tol-kee-yen.” There, I just saved you two hours.

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Too often Tolkien lumbers up to its big moments, such as the preposterous climax involving the title character scrambling around the western front, calling out his schoolmate’s name. Fact or fiction isn’t the issue. Either way it plays like hokum.

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Tolkien manages several scenes of credible emotional delicacy.

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This perfunctory biopic turns real life into the stuff of fantasy

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Nicholas Hoult stars as a young J.R.R. Tolkien in this stately but reductive biopic.

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Dull tale on ‘Lord of the Rings’ author’s life doesn’t do justice to his backstory or his breathtaking imagination

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The film preaches of the love of creative freedom, yet finds no original form of expression of its own.

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