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An overlong slog through exposition territory, Desolation of Smaug leaves characters dangling on the way to a spectacular finish.

Frodo's heroism succeeds among Return of the King's endless fighting - and yet he never kills anything himself, a true pacifist's fable.

The Two Towers is an unusually optimistic middle chapter, imperfect, if ensuring Frodo is a notable, memorable hero.

While time sapped the visual effect's prowess, at its heart, The Fellowship of the Ring maintains its raw fantasy, and works in the now as it did when first …

Haven's all-star cast and tragic, criminal story are let down by an overly ambitious screenplay.

Mixing true war drama with volatile personalities, The Outpost capably shows modern combat from a variety of perspectives.

Lock It Up The twist in Unlocked concerns the villain. Using racial profiling, via Arabic dialect and vaguely Middle Eastern-looking actors, Unlocked suggests terrorists. It’s a trap and the …

Please Tell No More Tales It took Pirates of the Caribbean 14 years to reach “torch passing” status. Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) and Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario) take over …

Battle of the compression codec Yes, it’s too long. No, it did not need to be three movies. But, The Hobbit is no less fun. Bilbo may be almost …

We’ve now been to Mordor and back again At some point in this trilogy of Hobbit spectacles, the Hobbit was lost. Martin Freeman’s lowly Bilbo, with his face contorting …

For its opening breeziness, Desolation still turns into a screen hog, if not to overflowing capacity.

Short of the most cynical amongst us, it's hard not to be impressed by how glamorous and visually scaled the film is.