A Life of Love, Courage, and Fellowship.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney, Craig Roberts, Harry Gilby, Laura Donnelly, Guillermo Bedward, Nia Gwynne, Derek Jacobi |
| Director |
Dome Karukoski |
| Screenplay | David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford |
| Music | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | Lasse Frank Johannessen |
| Editing | Harri Ylönen, Chris Gill |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2019 |
| Produced by | Fox Searchlight Pictures, Chernin Entertainment |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | None (sic) |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
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| PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for some sequences of war violence |
| Runtime | 112 |
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| Suggested age limit 12 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Die Burger Karla Janse van Vuuren  'Tolkien' maak man agter meesterwerke meer menslik. | 15 |  |
| Metacritic.com 37 critics | 10 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 154 critics | 11 |  |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Tolkien has the period trappings and strong performances of a worthy biopic, but lacks the imagination required to truly do its subject justice. | 10 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 11 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Cautious biopic about LOTR author has intense war scenes. | 5 |  |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy Not being a diehard Hobbit or Rings fan, I came out appreciating the real-life author even more and may revisit those works to look for signs of those early influential moments. | 12 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 18 users | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 561 users | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes popcornmeter Popcornmeter | 16 | |
| IMDB 3639 Netizens | 14 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 12 | |
Average .. 59% | 12 | |