The Dark Knight Reviews
Top CriticAn exceptionally smart, brooding picture with some terrific performances.
Projection Booth
Were films judged entirely by the emotive impact of their opening and closing images, The Dark Knight would be a masterpiece.
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| Original Score: B+
2UE That Movie Show
The glimpse into the Joker's darkness during his documented torture scene is a credit to the devastatingly lost potential of Heath Ledger.
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| Original Score: 5/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
It's not just the best Batman film ever. It's not just the best superhero movie ever. It's more than a money-spinner, a franchise, a comic-book cash-in. The Dark Knight is a stunning piece of work that deserves every word of praise spoken about it.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Lyles' Movie Files
a phenomenal masterpiece whose creators aren't content with simply making a great comic book movie, but craft one that transcends the genre to become one of the best films this decade.
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| Original Score: 10/10
TheMovieReport.com
Thank Warner Bros. for letting Nolan make such a smart, thrilling, emotionally involving, just terrifically well rounded and fully realized entertainment that challenges and elevates notions of what a so-called 'summer blockbuster' can do.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Examiner.com
It is ridiculous how much praise "The Dark Knight" truly deserves. Heath Ledger is this film's crowning jewel. By the time you get to the end credits, you'll immediately want to see it again.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Mark Reviews Movies
The Dark Knight is the best kind of sequel -- one that uses its predecessor as a gateway to explore new facets of its characters and its world.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Goatdog's Movies
Visceral and terrifying.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
American Profile
Even if this wasn't Ledger's final role before his untimely death last year, his Joker would still go down in cinema history as one of the most creepily unhinged big-screen bad guys of all time.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Digital Spy
More than a comic-book adventure, this is a sprawling crime epic.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ComingSoon.net
You know you're watching a good movie when it puts a smile on your face right from the start. In the The Dark Knight it may be a twisted grimace but given the right perspective there's enjoyment to be had in even the bleakest subject matter.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Common Sense Media
Excellent sequel much darker, more violent than the first.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Allusions to our current struggles with surveillance, public perception and terrorism are thrown into the mix, adding political immediacy to Nolan's psycho noir.
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| Original Score: A-
Christopher Nolan is much, much smarter than your average filmmaker.
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| Original Score: A+
Boston Phoenix
Completely lacking in vanity, Ledger creates his finest performance.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Times-Picayune
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Washington Times
The Dark Knight is a masterpiece of the first order, and the first great post-Sept. 11 film.
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| Original Score: 4/4
