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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 11 Dec 2013

The cast, including Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly as warrior elves, is also excellent (though we don’t get even a glimpse of Andy Serkis’…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Bruce Kirkland (531) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 11 Dec 2013

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will absolutely thrill fans of Middle-earth and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings universe…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 11 Dec 2013

Just when the movie seems to be at its most plodding, it perks up to envision an element of Tolkien's tale in a way that words could never capture…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Steven D. Greydanus (674) for National Catholic Register (119) on 11 Dec 2013

The transformation of Jackson's Middle Earth into alt-Tolkien fan fiction is complete…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 11 Dec 2013

When you consider the spectacle involved and the edge of your seat derring-do on display, The Desolation of Smaug can't help but satisfy…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Dec 2013

At its best, Hobbit 2, which carries the subtitle The Desolation of Smaug, invites comparisons to Jackson's Lord of the Rings threesome…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 11 Dec 2013

There are probably enough moments to satisfy hard-core fans, but for the rest of us, this amounts to the Middle Earth equivalent of “Star…

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By Henry Fitzherbert (699) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 11 Dec 2013

It is confident enough to leave the audience hanging having created enormous momentum and promising an epic confrontation ahead, even if it…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 11 Dec 2013

This is a far more purposeful affair, mostly devoid of the longeurs that often drained momentum from An Unexpected Journey and winningly unafraid…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Rob Carnevale (227) for The List (2,018) on 11 Dec 2013

Clocking in at in excess of two and a half hours, this second film in The Hobbit trilogy hits the ground running with a couple of impressive…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 11 Dec 2013

There are things to like about the second Hobbit film - the director's vision of Middle Earth is as beguiling as ever - but the bloating that…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Ed Whitfield (493) for The Ooh Tray (482) on 11 Dec 2013

Economic storytelling has gone the way of twenty four frames per second; this is a movie informed by obnoxious, brazen economics…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 11 Dec 2013

Much of the bloat is still there, but The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in the Hobbit trilogy, is a real improvement – filled with…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Dec 2013

Jackson's latest go at Tolkien's treasured Hobbit story gets closer to that rich alchemy of fantasy, adventure, imagination and emotion that…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Kristy Puchko (422) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 10 Dec 2013

While there's plenty of fun to be had with this feature, much of it could have easily been left on the cutting room floor…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 10 Dec 2013

Smaug is different: a really good movie, superior to the first in that it brings its characters to rambunctious life…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Graham Young (657) for Birmingham Mail (391) on 10 Dec 2013

There's only so many times you can watch 13 mostly anonymous dwarves dancing along in a line without singing to yourself: ''Let's all earn…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Dec 2013

By the time the beast spreads his wings to full span, soaring skyward toward a vaguely Spielbergian moon, you’re in the kind of breathless…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 10 Dec 2013

Some of the dwarves have nice individual moments, namely Balin (Ken Stott), Bofur (James Nesbitt), and Kili (Aidan Turner), and Gandalf gets…

Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for Film.com (1,892) on 10 Dec 2013

It’s merely somewhat better than last year’s meandering dud — a slight improvement on a movie that should have been pretty easy to improve upon…

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