Review of Tolkien (2019) by Justin Chang for Los Angeles Times — 06 May 2019
What Tolkien offers instead is a picturesque, amber-soaked balm for armchair Anglophiles: the manners and mores, the crisp witticisms and stirring, stiff-upper-lip sentiments. These pleasures aren’t negligible.
But neither are they a substitute for a genuinely cinematic window into a genius’ mind.
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This review of Tolkien (2019) was written by Justin Chang and published by Los Angeles Times on 06 May 2019.
Tolkien has generally received positive reviews.
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