Synopses & Reviews
The follow-up to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight reunites director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, who reprises the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne in his continuing war on crime. With the help of LT. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves effective, but soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces Batman closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante. Heath Ledger stars as archvillain The Joker, and Aaron Eckhart plays Dent. Maggie Gyllenhaal joins the cast as Rachel Dawes. Returning from Batman Begins are Gary Oldman as Gordon, Michael Caine as Alfred and Morgan Freeman as Lucious Fox.
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"Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, The Dark Knight goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind." New York Times
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"This is a rich, complex, visually thrilling piece of pop entertainment, as strong as any superhero epic we've ever seen." Richard Roeper
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"Ledger's work is improbably droll, impossibly creepy, meticulously detailed." Chicago Tribune
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"The haunting and visionary Dark Knight soars on the wings of untamed imagination." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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"An ambitious, full-bodied crime epic of gratifying scope and moral complexity." Variety
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"[A] comic-book movie, but it's also a dark and highly complex drama." Newsday
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"Watching The Dark Knight is like gazing into a mirror on a waning moon night: chilling and mesmerizing." Denver Post