The movie was produced without the cooperation of the Tolkien family and estate, which said in a statement to TIME that it “did not approve of, authorize or participate in the making of this film.” ...

Fox Searchlight has released the second movie trailer for Tolkien (2019). Unlike the first trailer for Tolkien, this trailer shows the viewer more of the world outside of J. R. R. Tolkien (Nicholas ...

Fox Searchlight has set a summer release date for “Tolkien,” the biopic on “The Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien. The film starring Nicholas Hoult as the fantasy author will open on May 10, ...

There’s nothing particularly wrong with “Tolkien” (2019, Fox, PG-13, $25), a biopic about the formative years of J.R.R. Tolkien, the man who became one of the most famous fantasy writers of all time ...

Was “The Lord of the Rings” the result of post-traumatic stress disorder? That is one of the takeaways from “Tolkien,” the good-not-great biographical film from Finnish-American director Dome ...

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Warning! Some spoilers for what we saw at the presentation. J.R.R. Tolkien is probably the best-known fantasy author of all-time. His sprawling stories include The Lord of the Rings trilogy and its ...

Those men are: Geoffrey Bache Smith, Robert Quilter Gilson and Christopher Wiseman, who with Tolkien called themselves the Tea Club and Barrovian Society (or T.C.B.S.) when the four met as teenage ...

“Tolkien” is one of those good movies that is best understood — both for its strengths and its weaknesses — when compared to other, better movies in its genre. A biopic of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

The estate of J.R.R. Tolkien wants nothing to do with an upcoming biopic that stars Nicholas Hoult as the Lord of the Rings author. In a recent statement, the author’s estate noted that it was not ...