Opening This Week:
The Dark
Knight Rises
★★★ (out of ★★★★)
Nationwide Friday- If certain aspects of the film can be picked apart, it
comes only as a noteworthy trait because the former chapter in the trilogy
was so difficult to criticize. Judged on its own merits, or even as the last
part to a very fulfilling puzzle, it is a mature and sprawling achievement
that proves big-budget filmmaking need not be all flash and no brains. It
might take a little too long getting there in the grand scheme, but “The
Dark Knight Rises” finally approaches cinematic nirvana just as it reaches
the perfect denouement, closing the book on a vision of Batman unlikely to
be equaled when Warner Bros. no doubt reboots the character in a few years’
time.
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