But Fellowship remains the most perfect of the three, matching every genius action beat with a soul-stirring emotional one, as its Middle-earth-traversing gang swells in size in the first act, then dwindles in the third. The Return Of The King boasts the most batshit, operatic spectacle. As Fellowship thrums to its conclusion, finally applying the brakes with a last swell of Howard Shore's heavenly score, you're left feeling euphoric, bereft and hopeful, all at the same time.
Onwards his adventure hustles, to the bravura dungeoneering of Khazad-dûm, to the sinisterly serene glades of Lothlorien, to the final requiem for flawed Boromir amidst autumnal leaves.
Even at the halfway point, as the characters take a breather to bicker in Rivendell, you already feel sated, like you've experienced more thrills, more suspense, more jollity and ethereal beauty than a regular film could possibly muster up. The Fellowship Of The Ring contains so much movie. But here it is, brighter and more resplendent than ever. It might have taken 20 years for Peter Jackson's plucky fantasy to clamber, Mount-Doom-style, to the very pinnacle of our greatest-movies pantheon. He arrives precisely when he… well, you know the rest. The costumes may be ahistorical (albeit intentionally so), but the tale of egos and excess in fashion is undoubtedly timeless.A wizard is never late. Her beginnings as a renegade fashion designer-when she pushes back against the florals and frivolity of 1960s London style and introduces something darker and more dangerous to the mix-has plenty of parallels in real-world figures such as Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano. It tells the origin story of 101 Dalmatians' infamously stylish villain Cruella DeVil, here played in her youth by Emma Stone.
While Disney’s fantastical take on the world of fashion may be a little far-fetched, it gets more right than it does wrong. © Disney+ / Courtesy of Everett Collection Cruella (2021)
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