Gorgeously hand-crafted, this rich but approachable spectacle breathes new life into a franchise that has seen diminishing returns.
Peter Jackson’s The Battle of Five Armies lives up to its title with a epic extended battle sequence that goes on for nearly an hour
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug provides a response to critics of the first film, opening and closing with two enormous action set pieces
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey give fans the chance to spend some more time in Peter Jackson’s vision of Middle Earth
The Lovely Bones is also an incredibly misguided film that feels icky and unpleasant and all sorts of wrong