I've read the critics' reviews...

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2001)

...and the opinions of critics often don't coincide with my views of movies. Yet for once it seems that we are in agreement. Nearly every movie critic worldwide has called the first of the three Lord of the Rings movies amazing (at the very least), and I must agree. I wasn't sure what to expect but I got more than I could've hoped for. I'm going to see it again tonight. It's one of those movies that just awes you--it brings out all sorts of emotions, from mournful sadness to bemuzed laughter to startled fear. I hear the next two will be even better. That's somewhat hard to believe, but I never thought that a movie of this kind could be made before now, so I suppose I'd better wait from now on to pass judgement. Go see the Lord of the Rings for yourself. It's well worth it.