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OFCS Rating: 97% Fresh |
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| "this intelligent, remarkably responsible approach to some of the most pressing issues of our times will make The Dark Knight be remembered, and cherished, long after the summer is over." |
| musicOMH.com |
| Anton Bitel |
A+ | "This is the kind of movie going experience that people tell their grand kids about." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
5/5 | "Like a symphony where every note is exactly where it needs to be, or a painting without a brushstroke wasted, The Dark Knight is an unabashed, unashamedly great film." |
| PopMatters |
| Bill Gibron |
10/10 | "From its grim palette to its wonderfully eerie score, a departure from what Hollywood has always told us a superhero film should be ... Complex, unsettling, and rewarding." |
| AfterElton.com |
| Brian Juergens |
A | "Dark Knight is epic, frightening, unforgettable, unstoppable, and every inch a classic Batman trial, brought to life with disquieting, mouth-slashing sincerity." |
| BrianOrndorf.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
| "In The Dark Knight, when mortals tangle in the affairs of the gods, they get burned." |
| PopMatters |
| Chris Barsanti |
3/5 | "relatively high-quality pulp." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Christopher Null |
A+ | "The Dark Knight packs in at least two films worth of action, suspense, spectacle, horror, and nuanced social commentary. You’ll want to see it more than twice." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
7/10 | "Batman's dilemma in The Dark Knight is how to use his bad press, whether he will embrace it or continue to fight it." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
4/5 | "The late Heath Ledger will be missed because of his ability to make a green-haired clown into the most terrifying sight in recent memory." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
4/5 | "The Joker's scenes reveal a lean, mean thriller hidden inside a bloated superhero epic." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A- | "Remarkable for it's visionary thematic sprawl... and unforgettable for the individual performance of a single actor." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
4/4 | "This is without a doubt the best -- and most important -- picture of the year." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
3.5/4 | "An obvious improvement over its immediate predecessor..." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
A- | "Probably one of the better comic book stories filmed ... ." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
4/4 | "Nihilistic, imaginative and emotionally gratifying, The Dark Knight is in many ways a groundbreaking triumph, and perhaps the best superhero film to date." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
3/5 | "Lo mejor, por lejos: la descollante actuación póstuma de Heath Ledger como el Guasón definitivo. Quizás el primer blockbuster de culto del siglo XXI." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A- | "Nolan has shot The Dark Knight with the utmost confidence, and with a gleefully morbid sense of fun that prevents it from becoming oppressively bleak." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "The most brilliantly complex, perfectly paced, nerve-jangling, moral-wrangling film ever based on a graphically detailed literary work and, dare I say, one of the most important American films to be made in years." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
A | "It's a movie about America, terrorism and the rule of law; about heroism and human nature. The dude in the bat suit is just window-dressing." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3.5/4 | "A near flawless example of superhero cinema with marvelous performances, a top notch script, and direction that aims for a more adult audience..." |
| Cinema Crazed |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
3.5/4 | "Superman: The Movie demostró el verdadero potencial de las películas de superhéroes, subió la barra y la puso en lo alto de un edificio. Ahora llega Nolan con The Dark Knight y ha puesto la barra en algún lugar de la luna." |
| Doncinema.com |
| Flavio J. Arosemena |
B+ | "A superior sequel, remarkable for its blend of serious themes and crowd-pleasing action, with a performance by Heath Ledger that's a memorable coda to a career cut far too short." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
4/5 | "A thought-provoking morality tale about the descent into darkness of a vigilante superhero, an anarchistic and sadistic villain, and an ardent idealist whose dreams are shattered." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
B+ | "It plays for the heart, for the guts, in order to distract the head from the questionable politics it promotes--namely, fascism." |
| Cinepinion |
| Henry Stewart |
4/4 | "Nolan has provided movie-goers with the best superhero movie to-date, outclassing previous titles both mediocre and excellent, and giving this franchise its Empire Strikes Back." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
4/5 | "Scripted by Nolan and his brother Jonathan, The Dark Knight is laced with the depths of thematic aspiration that can catapult a summer tentpole into the realms of the mythic." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
| "There is no other way to put this: The Dark Knight is bloody brilliant and you should go see it!" |
| Sci-Fi Movie Page |
| James O'Ehley |
5/5 | "Comic-book movies are often bland and big meditations on good versus evil; The Dark Knight gives us a more interesting examination of right versus wrong, and how little it can take to shove the one into the other." |
| Cinematical |
| James Rocchi |
3/4 | "Ambitious, flawed and erratically visionary, Batman is back." |
| Palo Alto Weekly |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
10/10 | "[Gotham City] stands in for any of today's civilized nations and becomes ripe for thematic exploration. And Nolan wastes no chance to utilize this world for a tale about how fragile our morality is." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
85/100 | "It is a supreme achievement in its genre. It doesn't transcend its comic book origins, but rather faithfully represents them, wholly unembarrassed to deliver its story on its own terms." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
3.5/4 | "Freed from the confines of an origin story, director Christopher Nolan lets loose with an intense, challenging, flawed and, yes, dark vision of Gotham under siege, featuring an unforgettable final performance by Heath Ledger as the clown prince of crime." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
2.5/4 | "[Though] The Dark Knight is a film one can respect, it is very difficult to enjoy." |
| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
4.5/5 | "click for review by guest critic" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
5/5 | "Be not fooled, this movie may circle D.A. Harvey Dent, and may toy with Wayne's weariness and loneliness, but this story belongs heart and soul to Ledger's Joker." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
| "Now you see it, now you don't." |
| House Next Door |
| Keith Uhlich |
4.0/4.0 | "Heath Ledger's performance was a strong contributor, but Christopher Nolan's writing and direction is the real star." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
A+ | "Quite simply, when you see The Dark Knight, you're going to realize how truly awful the first wave of Batman films were." |
| Film School Rejects |
| Kevin Carr |
4/4 | "An ambitious, complex, unpredictable and uncompromising morality tale." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
A- | "Director Christopher Nolan, who cowrote this dense, dark story with brother Jonathan, has taken the comic book super hero movie onto another plateau...Post 9/11 themes dominate..." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
4/4 | "Ledger's mesmerizingly damaged agent provocateur is the film's dark heart, a presence so malevolently unpredictable that it remains palpable even when he's not on screen." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
2/3 | "Llega un momento en el que uno desea que la película termine ya, lo cual nunca es una buena señal." |
| Off-Off-Critica |
| MalaBesta |
8/10 | "It manages to bring together an action film and a thought piece. This is a lot more than we have come to expect from a comic book film." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "If Dark Knight is a nightmare of particularly modern neuroses, then Batman/Bruce Wayne are a tiny ray of hope upon awakening." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4/4 | "Not just a comic book movie but a virtual dissertation on the nature of good and evil, as well as the thin line that sometimes separates them." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "It has chases and crashes and fight scenes, including a somersaulting truck, but when it is over it is the wrenching choices, the internal confrontations, that reverberate." |
| Beliefnet |
| Nell Minow |
3.5/4 | "The Dark Knight resounds with a throbbing topical undercurrent, its superficially good-versus-evil setup slowly revealed to be a complex examination of the ways in which democracies can, and must, combat zealotry." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Ver a figura claudicante, vulnerável e trágica de Batman mergulhar nas sombras de uma cidade desesperada por figuras heróicas é, desde já, umas das imagens mais fortes e tristes que o gênero já produziu." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
4.5/5 | "Ledger makes the Joker his, imbuing the character with such menace and genuine insanity I finally got a sense of what talent he really had." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
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OFCS Rating: 97% Fresh |
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