“Once again, Martin Freeman plays Bilbo, the homebody hobbit who has been enlisted by a band of boisterous dwarfs to help reclaim their lost kingdom and vast treasure from a gold-stoned dragon, Smaug, voiced with hypnotic, sepulchral menace by Benedict Cumberbatch. … [T]here are also pacific, brooding interludes in which the actors — notably Mr. Freeman, an intensely appealing screen presence — remind you that there’s more to Middle-earth than clamor and struggle.”
- Manohla Dargis’s NYT Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (via mysteryofthings)
- Manohla Dargis’s NYT Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (via mysteryofthings)