Tolkien

Anyone who enjoys watching public school boy 'banter' being thrown around over cups of tea are in for a treat.

It's a biopic that somehow glosses over things whilst also simultaneously spending too long on them, too.

Biopics can be better than this; they just have to want to tell us something more than the Cliff's Notes of a life well lived.

Tolkien succeeds (in a non-entertaining way) in showing how regular people's lives can inspire great works, but it utterly fails in showing the importance and impact of the work itself, which is why we're actually drawn to the man.

The strength of this film resides not in its storytelling, but in the performances conveyed by the actors onscreen as well as the visuals that infused magic with reality.