Patience is exactly the virtue required.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2024

This is a cinematic world so fully realized that leaving it is a sad prospect.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 20, 2022

A wonderfully satisfying fantasy adventure that not only connects to the previous films, but charts its own ground with great effectiveness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

When it comes to the fantasy genre, it really doesn't get more epic than this.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 1, 2020

This is a film for true Tolkien connoisseurs.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

In the end you're left wondering how it went that way, and how in the hell are they going to squeeze two more movies out of this?

| Original Score: C | Jul 14, 2020

'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' is an expected journey that radiates entertainment, majesty and wonder. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 25, 2020

While it doesn't have the same sense of urgency and darkness as the LOTR trilogy, An Unexpected Journey is a fun and welcomed adventure, filled with humor, spectacular visuals and great action sequences. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2020

Despite a few minor flaws, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a superb (and suitably epic) addition to Peter Jackson's past adaptations of Tolkien's work. See it in 3D and 48fps for the ultimate experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2020

It feels more scattershot than Jackson's prior films, a pastiche of set pieces that don't add up to a unified story.

| Original Score: 3.2/5 | Nov 14, 2019

It feels much like a gentler, more humorous and watered-down version of The Fellowship of the Ring.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2019

If The Hobbit does become a huge hit, winning fans beyond the loyalists, it won't be the first bad movie to score at the box-office.

| Aug 6, 2019

As Bilbo Baggins, Martin Freeman... is a perfect mix of innocent wide-eyed wonder-filled man child and stodgy stick in the mud.

| Jul 30, 2019

A grand cinematic spectacle that demands our full surrender but doesn't overwhelm its simple tale of courage with its spectacular special effects.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 8, 2019

For the most part I found the whole excursion to be rather dull. The action is absent in long stretches, with what feels like an endless string of backstories.

| Apr 11, 2019

As the camera panned down over Hobbiton, the clarity of the colors and costumes made the scene look like a local RenFair-except, not even as gritty as that.

| Mar 3, 2019

The Hobbit is a long and bumpy walk worth taking.

| Feb 26, 2019

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a very good two-hour film buried within a meandering 166 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2019

The results aren't quite so resonant, but the right notes are still being played, and we certainly come away fond enough of the characters and invested enough in their world to want to come back for more when it's ready.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 30, 2019

Bret MacKenzie returns as FIGWIT and it's about as jarring as Ed Sheeran in Game of Thrones but it's still good.

| Jan 14, 2019