Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Scored from 1,653 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
With the Fellowship broken, Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee continue toward Mordor alone and take on a guide: Gollum, the wretched creature the One Ring belonged to before them. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli chase the Uruk-hai carrying Merry and Pippin into Rohan, a kingdom whose ailing king Theoden has been hollowed out by Saruman's whispers and whose people retreat to the fortress of Helm's Deep as Isengard empties its new army onto the plains. Meanwhile the hobbits are led deeper into enemy country, and the war reaches forests and peoples that had hoped to stay out of it. Peter Jackson's second Lord of the Rings film adapts the middle volume of Tolkien's novel as a large-scale fantasy adventure.
Released in 2002, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is an adventure, drama and fantasy film. It was made in New Zealand and the United States. It is rated PG-13. The runtime is 179 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 43,498 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 1,653 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 1,853 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 1,653.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
