the dark knight rises
What is the legacy of the Aurora shootings?
The Aurora shootings presented double whammy: Because the killings occurred in a Century 16 movie theater during a midnight premiere of the most anticipated summer blockbuster of 2012—as opposed to a college campus, or a high school, or a food court—there is both a movie tie-in and a national tragedy tie-in. That's one reason that among the first lines of media advance on the story that was not hard news came from movie critics. More
Two views of 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Steven Boone and Ben Parker on the last of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. More
'The Dark Knight Rises,' a dense deployment of sound and fury
No one has ever wanted to be thought of as “cerebral” as much as the director of Memento and Inception. The Batman films that he's made have been less gimmicky in their convolutions—no dreams within dreams or backwards storytelling—attempting instead something on the scale of a Victor Hugo novel or Wagner opera. But along with that comes all the bombast and shallowness of a Hugo or a Wagner, with their addictions to backstory and exposition, tinny melodrama, and characters whose sole purpose is to advance a stalled plot. More
'The Dark Knight Rises': Gotham's final, reactionary State of the Union
One of the lovelier tricks a movie can pull is to make us miss somebody and then be grateful for even one fresh glimpse of them. It works on two levels. We are delighted to see or meet a memorable character in narrative context but also to find a familiar actor still alive and thrashing, on the screen, at least. More
(5)Cowl play: 'The Dark Knight Rises,' before his time
Critical reception on The Dark Knight Rises have begun to trickle in, amid conspiracy theories, wild claims, and reviews by people who haven't seen it. More
