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Subscribe to weekly newsletter » times & tickets in theaters Fandango Search movie The Babymakers Zero stars showtimes and buy Bill W. tickets. The Dark Knight Rises Killer Joe The Queen of Versailles Total Recall BY ROGER EBERT / July 17, 2012 about us more current releases » "The Dark Knight Rises" About the site » leaves the fanciful early one-minute movie reviews days of the superhero cast & credits Site FAQs » genre far behind, and still playing moves into a doom- Bruce Wayne Christian Bale Contact us » Selina Anne Hathaway shrouded, apocalyptic Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter future that seems Bane Tom Hardy Email the Movie The Amazing Spider-Man uncomfortably close to Answer Man » Miranda Marion Cotillard The Babymakers Zero stars today's headlines. As urban Blake Joseph Gordon-Levitt Battleship terrorism and class warfare Alfred Michael Caine Beasts of the Southern Wild envelop Gotham and its Commissioner Gordon Gary Oldman Bel Ami on sale now Bernie infrastructure is ripped Lucius Fox Morgan Freeman apart, Bruce Wayne Bill W. (Christian Bale) emerges Brave Warner Bros. presents a film reluctantly from years of A Burning Hot Summer seclusion in Wayne Manor directed by Christopher Nolan. Chinese Take-Away and faces a soulless villain Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Dark Horse The Dark Knight Rises as powerful as he is. The Christopher Nolan, based on characters created by Bob Kane. Dark Shadows film begins slowly with a The Day He Arrives Running time: 164 minutes. MPAA murky plot and too many The Dictator new characters, but builds rating: PG 13 (for intense The Do-Deca-Pentathlon Buy now » to a sensational climax. sequences of violence and action, Elena some sensuality and language). Elles The result, in Christopher Farewell, My Queen Nolan's conclusion to his For Greater Glory Batman trilogy, is an The Girl from the Naked Eye ambitious superhero movie Girl in Progress with two surprises: It isn't God Bless America Goodbye First Love very much fun, and it Printer-friendly » doesn't have very much Headhunters E-mail this to a friend » Batman. I'm thinking of the Hick Buy now » over-the-top action High School Hysteria sequences of the earlier I Wish films that had a subcurrent Ice Age: Continental Drift of humor, and the The Intouchables exhilarating performance of Heath Ledger as the Joker. This movie is The Invisible War all serious drama, with a villain named Bane whose Hannibal Killer Joe Lecterish face-muzzle robs him of personality. And although we see a Last Ride good deal of Bruce Wayne, his alter-ego Batman makes only a few Late Bloomers brief appearances before the all-out climax. 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This is a dark and heavy film; it tests the weight a superhero movie more great movies on dvd » can bear. That Nolan is able to combine civil anarchy, mass destruction and a Batcycle with exercise-ball tires is remarkable. That he does it without using 3D is admirable. That much of it was shot in the 70mm IMAX format allows it to make that giant screen its own. Buy now» That it concludes the trilogy is inevitable; how much deeper can Nolan dig? It lacks the near-perfection of "The Dark Knight" (2008), it needs more clarity and a better villain, but it's an honorable finale.

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