Fresh
The Fellowship of the Ring is an unqualified triumph. More, please.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
One ring to rule them all.
2001 · 2h 59m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Directed by
Peter Jackson
Overview
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An enthusiastic visionary set loose on one of the biggest playgrounds ever constructed, Jackson brings more personality to the series' first installment, The Fellowship Of The Ring, than typically seeps into a franchise of this magnitude.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Fresh
The New Zealander director Peter Jackson, who wrote the screenplay with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, works with enough dramatic tension and pictorial grandeur to sustain us through long periods of complicated exposition and heavy bouts of swordplay.
David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh
If Fellowship hasn't rescued an otherwise dreadful year, it at least gives us something to look forward to -- same time, next year.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Fresh
Masterfully paced, the movie builds slowly, introducing the mythology, habitats and lifestyles of Tolkien's creatures.
David Germain, Associated Press
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