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The Dark Knight

The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (BBC)

The Dark Knight

2008

Christopher Nolan

Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine ...

8.1

155,388

Thriller. Action. Drama Batman/Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Batman isn't a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight' is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind."	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"[Ledger's] performance is also the most interesting thing in the film, and when the Joker is absent, 'The Dark Knight' loses most of its energy and dynamism."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"No fair giving away the mysteries of The Dark Knight. It's enough to marvel at the way Nolan --a world-class filmmaker-- brings pop escapism whisper-close to enduring art. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Moira MacDonald Seattle Times	"See this one on the biggest screen you can (IMAX, ideally), and experience both the magic of top-notch technical filmmaking and the bittersweet pleasure of watching a young actor, gone too soon, giving a performance that won’t be forgotten."	POS
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"[It] keeps you on edge and sends you out onto the street with post-movie stress disorder (...) The narrative isn’t shaped coherently to bring out contrasts and build toward a satisfying climax."	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"An ambitious, full-bodied crime epic of gratifying scope and moral complexity, this is seriously brainy pop entertainment that satisfies every expectation"	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"'The Dark Knight' is pure adrenaline (...) The ideas here are not new to the movie world of cops and criminal, but in the context of a comic book movie, they ring out with startling clarity."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"When was the last time you saw a blockbuster that was impeccably executed and simultaneously thought-provoking, audacious and unnerving while consistently being fun and entertaining? (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'The Dark Knight' is strange, dark, grandiose and mad; it is overlong and overhyped but hugely entertaining. In a simple, physical sense it really is huge (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Dinning Empire	"Ledger's performance is monumental, but 'The Dark Knight' lives up to it. Nolan cements his position as Hollywood's premier purveyor of blockbuster smarts (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"Nolan lets the film's spectacular action scenes seem like the natural consequences of the conflicts between characters (...) It's a metropolis-sized tragedy at heart."	POS
Spain	FilmAffinity	"The Dark Knight" rewrote the box-office record books in its first weekend. The film raked in $158.4 million dollars, crushing the previous North American box-office opening record of $151.1 million held by "Spider-Man 3". Total Gross in USA: $530 million dollars (ranked 2nd in the history after "Titanic" in 2008). Film Budget: $180 million dollars.	DIS

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