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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 304
Fresh: 266 | Rotten: 38

The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan's franchise in spectacular fashion.

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Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 11

The Dark Knight Rises is an ambitious, thoughtful, and potent action film that concludes Christopher Nolan's franchise in spectacular fashion.

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It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more

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The story is dense, overlong, and studded with references that will make sense only to those intimate with Nolan's previous excursions into Batmanhood.

July 30, 2012 Full Review Source: New Yorker
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There was an opportunity here for Nolan to show us another way, to (again) stretch the boundaries of what is possible in a superhero film. Instead, alas, the latter half of The Dark Knight Rises retreats toward conventionality.

July 20, 2012 Full Review Source: The Atlantic
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I'm not arguing that Rises should be Singin' in the Rain. But its Wagnerian ambitions are not matched by its material. It hasn't earned its darkness.

July 20, 2012 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor
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The biggest surprise may just be how satisfying Nolan has made his farewell to a Dark Knight trilogy that many fans will wish he'd extend to a 10-part series, at least.

July 19, 2012 Full Review Source: NPR | Comments (8)
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Others will see it differently, but for me this is a disappointingly clunky and bombastic conclusion to a superior series -- Nolan's biggest and worst movie to date.

July 19, 2012 Full Review Source: CNN.com | Comments (173)
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The director and cowriter/brother Jonathan Nolan pay heed to Wayne's wounded emotional arc. And the film is a feat of painstakingly crafted closure.

July 19, 2012 Full Review Source: Denver Post
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I was surprised at just how much of a great, thrilling time I had. It's a film that genuinely earns its stripes as a grand, epic work of cinema.

September 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Trespass
Trespass

No villain could come close to matching Ledger's inspired Joker, but give Hardy credit for supplying Bane with plenty of conviction and gravitas in a movie that, frankly, is less about actors than knockout set pieces captured in eyeball-popping spectacles.

August 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Daily Herald (IL)
Daily Herald (IL)

Caps off the trilogy with passion and dignity, if not always with slam-bang entertainment. Whoever directs the reboot in five years will have a lot to live up to.

July 16, 2013 Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com
EricDSnider.com

The movie's two hours and 44 minutes long but never drags, and it has at least five separate action set pieces that will drop your jaw, particularly if you see it in IMAX.

June 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Deadspin
Deadspin

The Dark Knight Rises captures the spirit -- and cultural anxieties -- of the times.

June 20, 2013 Full Review Source: Film Comment Magazine
Film Comment Magazine

The final installment in Christopher Nolan's pitch-black trilogy manages to be both relevant and topical while slavishly adhering to the stodgy tropes of the genre.

May 26, 2013 Full Review Source: The Patriot Ledger
The Patriot Ledger

Gloom never looked as good as it does in the mesmerizing "The Dark Knight Rises."

May 17, 2013 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee

Even with its flaws, The Dark Knight Rises is a solid film. It just fails to live up to the magnificent legacy created by the first two movies in the trilogy. To be fair, they were incredibly hard acts to follow.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Fresno Bee
Fresno Bee

Every facet of this impressive piece reaffirms the same thematic gristle as it forces the viewer to chew on the notion of personal responsibility.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Canada.com
Canada.com

The Dark Knight Rises is all about risks, and there are payoffs and failures to go with it.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Toledo Blade
Toledo Blade

This is a solid film, taking itself seriously and asking that we do the same.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: National Post
National Post

It's not un-entertaining. Exhausting, a bit, but not un-entertaining.

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Austin American-Statesman
Austin American-Statesman

An ambitious, honourable and satisfying conclusion to this genre-defining trilogy.

March 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Concrete Playground
Concrete Playground

The Dark Knight Rises directly counters the arguments made against The Dark Knight. Maybe, sometimes, it is better to leave the demons unvanquished.

December 31, 2012 Full Review Source: Bangitout.com
Bangitout.com

Technically, The Dark Knight Rises is a thick leatherbound volume with gilded pages, though flipping through it yields a story about a big bad bald man doing eeevil things until a vigilante with pointy ears comes to the rescue.

December 17, 2012 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Weighed down by portentousness and momentousness. The overall story remains a bit muddled. A better trilogy-capper than a movie in its own right.

November 22, 2012 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

There's plenty of action, intrigue, special effects, and high-tech gadgets to maintain our attention at least in spurts.

November 20, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

There's enough that works in The Dark Knight Rises that I can overlook most of the more glaring flaws, but it remains to date the most disappointing film I've seen from 2012.

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Nolan keeps things dark and dangerous

October 20, 2012 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Movie Habit

Doubtless flawed and arguably overlong, it's nonetheless a personal and heartfelt ode from the director to the greatest comic-book character ever committed to paper -- and now film.

October 19, 2012 Full Review Source: TheShiznit.co.uk
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Audience Reviews for The Dark Knight Rises

Well. Bane was lots of fun. Unfortunately I can't give this movie the praise of the other two in the series since they made some cardinal sins against reality. Namely stupid Indiana Jones 4 stuff like driving an armored car off a 20 foot drop and walking out of the back without a scratch.
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    1. Fox: Nothin like a little air superiority!
    – Submitted by James J (33 days ago)
    1. Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.
    – Submitted by Maineutral R (39 days ago)
    1. Miranda Tate: Suffering builds character.
    – Submitted by Tyler B (2 months ago)
    1. Miranda Tate: Vengeance against the man who killed him, is simply a reward, for my patience. You see, it's the slow knife, the knife that takes it's time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between the bones, that's the knife that cuts deepest.
    – Submitted by Tyler B (2 months ago)
    1. Bruce Wayne/Batman: He was trying to kill millions of innocent people.
    2. Miranda Tate: Innocent is a strong word to throw around Gotham, Bruce. I honor my father by finishing his work.
    – Submitted by Tyler B (2 months ago)
    1. Selina Kyle: You don't owe these people anymore, you've given them everything.
    2. Bruce Wayne/Batman: Not everything, not yet.
    – Submitted by Steven V (3 months ago)
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