Posted Monday night, March 30. 2020.
Nicholas Hoult as J.R.R. Tolkien in the 2019 biopic based on the creator of Middle Earth's early days as a developing writer, doing his best to make writing look dramatic!
Why do people keep making films about writers? And why do people watch them? It’s not as if writers do anything of interest. Unless you’re Byron or Stendhal, a successful day is one in which you don’t fall asleep with your head on the space bar.
---Anthony Lane in his review of “Tolkien” in the May 10, 2019 issue of the New Yorker,
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