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The Lord Of The Rings/The Two Towers - Movie Review Critics Score - 10 of 10 General Audience Score - 10 of 10 After the release of The Lord Of The Rings The Fellowship Of The Ring, while the film went on to immediate financial success and critical acclaim, New Line cinema knew they had two more gold mines left of their hands. Dropping into theatres one year later, Dec. 18, 2022, LOTR The Two Towers rolled in and scored almost a billion dollars at the worldwide box office and was nominated for six academy awards of which it won two. Although the film suffers slightly from Peter Jackson’s screenplay being adjusted in several ways from the original book, there can be no mistaking that The Two Towers was an undeniable accomplishment in the history of cinema. Personally, I would rank the trilogy in the order of Fellowship #1, King #2 and then Towers #3, but these are all masterpieces of film, each one in their own right. Whether you loved the books or not, whether your an average moviegoer...

Emily - Movie Review Critics Score - 9 of 10 General Audience Score - 7 of 10 Charlotte Brontë is a writer who lived in the 1800’s and wrote some pieces of classic English literature, including Jane Eyre. But her younger sister Emily, who lived a much shorter life and tragically passed at the tender age of 30, burned bright like a shooting star. Emily Brontë was a reclusive yet fascinating character that wrote the literary classic Wuthering Heights, but who’s life remains shrouded in mystery. The new movie Emily is a fictionalized account of what her life could have been and seeks to fill in some blanks of the events surrounding her creation of her masterpiece of writing. While it is very much a period piece and so we get to enjoy many of the dresses, stereotypes and emotional beats of a Pride And Prejudice or Sense And Sensibility, it works to subvert many of the classic storytelling tropes of the genre. Without spoiling the movie, I will say that not all great stories have the sail o...