Tolkien's reviews
Media reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Hoult brings a quiet, romantic intensity to the young Tolkien, Lily Collins does a lot with a little as his first love Edith, and the Hobbit horde will gobble up all of the easter-egg references peppered throughout the movie.
The Guardian
Its earnestness and idealism are refreshing.
New York Post
Karukoski never really succeeds in depicting the student, and later soldier, Tolkien as all that unusual.
The Washington Post
'Tolkien' is anodyne enough that no one should be terribly upset by it, let alone deeply moved in any other way.
Time Out
Director Dome Karukoski peppers the film with cutaways to imaginary CGI battles and mythological beasties, but none is a fraction as thrilling as the opening moments of Peter Jackson's 'The Fellowship of the Ring'.
The Hollywood Reporter
Handsomely made in the customarily fastidious style of most period biographical dramas, 'Tolkien' is strongly served by Hoult.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote