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Full of eye-popping special effects, and featuring a pitch-perfect cast, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring brings J.R.R. Tolkien's classic to vivid life.
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Most ambitiously, this rousing adventure closes with an ending that's closer in spirit to an art-house film than a popcorn holiday romp. December 7, 2014 | Full Review…
Most ambitiously, this rousing adventure closes with an ending that's closer in spirit to an art-house film than a popcorn holiday romp.
Xan Brooks
An enthusiastic visionary set loose on one of the biggest playgrounds ever constructed, Jackson brings more personality to the series' first installment, The Fellowship Of The Ring, than typically seeps into a franchise of this magnitude. November 18, 2013 | Full Review…
An enthusiastic visionary set loose on one of the biggest playgrounds ever constructed, Jackson brings more personality to the series' first installment, The Fellowship Of The Ring, than typically seeps into a franchise of this magnitude.
Scott Tobias
The New Zealander director Peter Jackson, who wrote the screenplay with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, works with enough dramatic tension and pictorial grandeur to sustain us through long periods of complicated exposition and heavy bouts of swordplay. November 18, 2013
The New Zealander director Peter Jackson, who wrote the screenplay with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, works with enough dramatic tension and pictorial grandeur to sustain us through long periods of complicated exposition and heavy bouts of swordplay.
David Denby
If Fellowship hasn't rescued an otherwise dreadful year, it at least gives us something to look forward to -- same time, next year. November 18, 2013 | Full Review…
If Fellowship hasn't rescued an otherwise dreadful year, it at least gives us something to look forward to -- same time, next year.
Jack Mathews
Masterfully paced, the movie builds slowly, introducing the mythology, habitats and lifestyles of Tolkien's creatures. November 18, 2013 | Full Review…
Masterfully paced, the movie builds slowly, introducing the mythology, habitats and lifestyles of Tolkien's creatures.
David Germain
Against all odds in an era of machine-made spectaculars, Mr. Jackson and his collaborators have created a film epic that lives and breathes, that's swept by almost palpable weather (much of it stormy). November 18, 2013 | Full Review…
Against all odds in an era of machine-made spectaculars, Mr. Jackson and his collaborators have created a film epic that lives and breathes, that's swept by almost palpable weather (much of it stormy).
Joe Morgenstern
Jackson is working from obvious passion; he knows the most special of effects are expected of him but deploys his technology smartly. March 16, 2020 | Full Review…
Jackson is working from obvious passion; he knows the most special of effects are expected of him but deploys his technology smartly.
Joshua Rothkopf
Ian McKellen... does a wonderful job and he really sort of grounds the film. June 28, 2019 | Full Review…
Ian McKellen... does a wonderful job and he really sort of grounds the film.
Rachel Wagner
God, it's good. January 14, 2019 | Full Review…
God, it's good.
Alex Casey
The Fellowship of the Ring is an impressive piece of filmmaking. It is, indeed, intensely faithful to the text, although, unsurprisingly, a great deal of the story is omitted. August 20, 2018 | Full Review…
The Fellowship of the Ring is an impressive piece of filmmaking. It is, indeed, intensely faithful to the text, although, unsurprisingly, a great deal of the story is omitted.
Louis Menand
[Peter] Jackson's ability to maintain the universality of a story is praiseworthy. [Full Review in Spanish] February 27, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
[Peter] Jackson's ability to maintain the universality of a story is praiseworthy. [Full Review in Spanish]
Covadonga G. Lahera
New Zealand genre film maverick Peter Jackson does the impossible: he makes a faithful, magical, thrilling, and-most importantly-compelling film version of J.R.R. Tolkein's great cult fantasy epic. February 4, 2018 | Full Review…
New Zealand genre film maverick Peter Jackson does the impossible: he makes a faithful, magical, thrilling, and-most importantly-compelling film version of J.R.R. Tolkein's great cult fantasy epic.
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