Jackson’s interventions into archive material are often startling and sometimes very transporting and moving, but in my view this film is best approached as more of a well-intentioned artistic reinterpretation.. than a restoration.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Jackson’s interventions into archive material are often startling and sometimes very transporting and moving, but in my view this film is best approached as more of a well-intentioned artistic reinterpretation.. than a restoration.

~ Owen Van Spall -

If Jackson was hoping for ethereal over corny, he’s failed decisively

~ Nick Da Costa -

If Jackson was hoping for ethereal over corny, he’s failed decisively

~ Nick Da Costa -

This is indeed the war of worlds

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This is indeed the war of worlds

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The Return Of The King is too long and slow. It has about five endings.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The Return Of The King is too long and slow. It has about five endings.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Has its moments of genius.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Has its moments of genius.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Big is back.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Big is back.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Benedict Cumberbatch lends this cruel, ancient dragon all the gravitas and otherworldliness that Sean Connery utterly failed to in Dragonheart.

~ Max Crawford -

Benedict Cumberbatch lends this cruel, ancient dragon all the gravitas and otherworldliness that Sean Connery utterly failed to in Dragonheart.

~ Max Crawford -

More combat means less time for character interaction, and by the third act, Jackson has already shoehorned in more characters than the film can handle.

~ Owen Van Spall -

More combat means less time for character interaction, and by the third act, Jackson has already shoehorned in more characters than the film can handle.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The pacing is agonisingly ponderous: in the screening I attended two ents got up and left.

~ Max Crawford -

The pacing is agonisingly ponderous: in the screening I attended two ents got up and left.

~ Max Crawford -

Braindead is the original and still the best.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Braindead is the original and still the best.

~ Jennie Kermode -