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The Dark Knight (2008)

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Reviews Counted:274

Fresh:256

Rotten:18

Average Rating:8.4/10

Consensus: Dark, complex and unforgettable, The Dark Knight succeeds not just as an entertaining comic book film, but as a richly thrilling crime saga.

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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of violence and some menace

Runtime: 2 hr. 30 min.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Drama

Theatrical Release: Jul 18, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $533.3M

Synopsis: Batman and Gordon find alliance with a newly appointed DA Harvey Dent to stop a vicious killer with a warped sense of humor known only as The Joker, a... Batman and Gordon find alliance with a newly appointed DA Harvey Dent to stop a vicious killer with a warped sense of humor known only as The Joker, a threat to both the good, and the evil of Gotham City. [More]

Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine

Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Monique Curnen, Ron Dean, Cillian Murphy, Chin Han, Nestor Carbonell, Eric Roberts, Ritchie Coster, Anthony Michael Hall, Colin McFarlane, Joshua Harto, Melinda McGraw, Nathan Gamble, Michael Vieau, Michael Stoyanov, Bill Smille, Michael Jai White, Matthew O'Neill, William Fichtner, Olumiji Olawumi, Greg Beam, Erik Hellman, Beatrice Rosen, Vincenzo Nicoli, Edison Chen, Nydia Rodriguez Terracina, Andy Luther, James Farruggio, Thomas McElroy, Will Zahrn, James Fierro, Sam Derence, Jennifer Knox, Patrick Clear, Sarah Jayne Dunn, Chucky Venn, Winston Ellis, David Dastmalchian, Sophia Hinshelwood, Keith Kupferer, Joseph Luis Caballero, Richard Dillane, Daryl Satcher, Crhis Perschler, Aidan Feore, Philip Bulcock, Paul Birchard, Walter Lewis, Vincent Riotta, Nancy Crane, K. Todd Freeman, Matt Shallenberger, Michael Andrew Gorman, Lanny Lutz, Peter DeFaria, Matt Rippy, Andrew Bicknell, Ariyon Bakare, Doug Ballard, Helene Wilson, Tommy Campbell, Craig Heaney, Lorna Gayle, Joshua Rollins, Dale RIvera, Matthew Leitch, Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr., Thomas Gaitsch, William Armstrong, Adam Kalesperis, Tristan Tait, Bronson Webb, Gertrude Kyles, Jonathan Ryland, James Scales, Nigel Carrington, Ian Pirie, Lateef Lovejoy, Grahame Edwards, Roger Monk, Ronan Summers, Wai Wong, Michael Corey Foster, Hannah Gunn, Brandon Lambdin

Director: Christopher Nolan

Director: Christopher Nolan
Screenwriter: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Producer: Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

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Bring on part three.

Full Review Source: Future Movies UK | comment 1 Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Coco Forsythe
Coco Forsythe
Future Movies UK

Christopher Nolan is much, much smarter than your average filmmaker.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Laremy Legel
Laremy Legel
Film.com
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Completely lacking in vanity, Ledger creates his finest performance.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
Jul 6, 2010
Brett Michel
Brett Michel
Boston Phoenix

Flawed and overrated.

Full Review Source: Reverse Shot | comment 35 Comments
Jul 6, 2010
Adam Nayman
Adam Nayman
Reverse Shot

It not only surpasses Batman Begins - previously considered the high-water mark of movies about the Caped Crusader - but one that magnificently transcends the superhero genre.

Full Review Source: Times-Picayune | comment 3 Comments
Oct 9, 2009
Mike Scott
Mike Scott
Times-Picayune

The Dark Knight is a masterpiece of the first order, and the first great post-Sept. 11 film.

Full Review Source: Washington Times | comment 11 Comments
Aug 30, 2009
Sonny Bunch
Sonny Bunch
Washington Times

Middling as a summer blockbuster, zero as art, and more than a bit alarming as a phenomenon

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment 52 Comments
Aug 25, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

najefektniji u trenucima kada se kr%u0161e nepisana pravila

Full Review Source: Index.hr | comment 2 Comments
Jul 15, 2009
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
Index.hr

Heath Ledger is Diana Ross and these other kids are The Supremes. Believe the hype, Mr. Ledger as The Joker is categorically brilliant. The late-great actor turned another Batman movie into a riveting film that will be Oscar worthy only because of him.

Full Review Source: BET.com | comment Comment
Jul 7, 2009
Clay Cane
Clay Cane
BET.com

Despite its superhero trappings, The Dark Knight is more a piece of film noir.

Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | comment 1 Comment
Mar 10, 2009
Steve Biodrowski
Steve Biodrowski
Cinefantastique

The Dark Knight is a good movie. It has all the ingredients to be a great movie, but it isn't one. I may grudgingly put it on my best-ten-of-the year list (a paltry group at this point), but it could have been so much more. It came so close.

Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly | comment 13 Comments
Feb 1, 2009
Tony Macklin
Tony Macklin
Fayetteville Free Weekly

Can one great character carry an entire movie? ....the answer is obviously yes. Ledger does it.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment 9 Comments
Nov 25, 2008
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

The film itself evokes the collision of an unstoppable force with an immovable object.

Full Review Source: Suite101.com | comment 6 Comments
Nov 19, 2008
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Suite101.com

The symbiosis of good and evil is the film's philosophical core, and images of duality and cloaked identity are strewn through it like shards from a fun house mirror.

Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment 1 Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Joe Williams
Joe Williams
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For all the Oscar buzz surrounding Heath Ledger in the past few weeks, there still aren’t enough hours in the day to gush about his knockout performance as The Joker.

Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Jason Zingale
Jason Zingale
Bullz-Eye.com

Lacks is a sense of humor and a notion about the essential silliness of this premise.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment 118 Comments
Oct 18, 2008
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

The movie is two-and-a-half hours of almost non-stop action, which while often enthralling, eventually gets tiring. It's just go-go-go.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment 51 Comments
Oct 18, 2008
Brie Beazley
Brie Beazley
Reel.com

An amazing piece of filmmaking that rockets the Batman legacy to heights never imagined, fueled by Heath Ledger's amazing re-invention of The Joker.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment 58 Comments
Oct 1, 2008
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Hollywood.com

In The Dark Knight, when mortals tangle in the affairs of the gods, they get burned.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment 62 Comments
Sep 24, 2008
Chris Barsanti
Chris Barsanti
PopMatters

The Dark Knight delivered on many fronts.

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment 16 Comments
Sep 12, 2008
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