It possesses all of the magic and excitement of “The Fellowship of the Ring,” as it transports us deeper into an adventure matched only by “The Wizard of Oz” in scope and imagination.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jun 9, 2024

With several structural changes with respect to the novel, Peter Jackson's "The Two Towers" manages to cement what was seen in the previous movie, and develop much of what will be presented in greater detail in the climactic film. Full review in Spanish.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 4, 2023

You'd think that tacking on an additional 43 minutes to the three-hour movie would be overkill. But the extended version actually feels shorter than the theatrical release -- possibly because it tells a more thorough story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2023

“The Two Towers” highlights Jackson’s keen ability to convey to the audience an incredible sense of the mystical and magical. The world he and his teams place us in are rich with imagination and the fantastical.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 23, 2022

The Battle of Helm's Deep, in it of itself, is a grand cinematic achievement. The Two Towers is possibly the best middle entry of any film trilogy ever. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 20, 2022

Peter Jacksons cinematic recreation of "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" is thrilling, enthralling, and dizzyingly exciting.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2022

What Jackson's storytelling lacks in coherency - a major problem for non-Tolkienites with the first film - he makes up for with a new-found sense of urgency and a richer blend of drama, humour and human emotion.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 17, 2020

In terms of battle sequences alone, it's hard to find one that's quite as daunting and absorbing as the Battle for Helm's Deep in The Two Towers...

Full Review | Oct 27, 2020

The climactic battle of Helm's Deep - though it still leaves much to be resolved for the final part - is a breathtakingly colossal skirmish in the rain and mud and fog.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 9, 2020

Call it a pretty good film and I'll agree with you. Call it a great one, and I will beg to differ.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2020

It also has... layers of political dynamics going on which I actually thought was pretty interesting.

Full Review | Jun 18, 2019

The Two Towers succeeds like few other middle installments do in serving as both a satisfying benchmark that ties the introduction and conclusion to this trilogy together.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | May 10, 2019

I think this one might be the actual best of the franchise and it's all because of the Ents.

Full Review | Jan 14, 2019

this three hour epic is one of those few films where you leave feeling they could have spent even more time with story explanation and exposition

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 10, 2016

These Tolkien films have a weight and seriousness that very few sword-and-sorcery pictures of the past 30-odd years have attained.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2014

What an eyeful it is. This is probably the greatest battlepiece composed for the screen since Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2014

This film is a towering achievement, and the next installment can't come soon enough.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2014

This is, I can say without fear of exaggerating, one of the great films of all time.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2014

Much of the movie is exciting. But none of it is as satisfying as what Jackson was able to create in Fellowship, the first film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2014

While the acting is once more solid throughout, even with the Shakespearean Ian McKellen given too little to do as the good wizard Gandalf, the most impressive performance of all comes from digital magicians who created the wretched Gollum, Smeagol.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2014