The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises not only celebrates a caped Übermensch but is itself, as a commercial enterprise, something beyond good and evil.

The Dark Knight Rises is the taut and satisfying finale to a beastly franchise that not only proposed new interpretations of a beloved tale, but it also re-engineered what we imagine a superhero movie to be.

Nolan somehow never loses control - this is an accomplished and tremendously confident filmmaker, both in the execution of his thrilling chases and action beats, and in his manipulation of the complicated, multi-faceted narrative.

Nolan has become hooked on the grandiose, at times even the biblical. For anyone who admired the witty playfulness of his early films, it's a dark night indeed.

I respected The Dark Knight Rises; I didn't quite love it.

As befits the saga's engagement with the economics of Gotham City, a great deal of topical material floats about here, insufficiently digested.

Every character is beyond three-dimensional and fleshed out with dynamic emotions, origins, strengths, flaws, victories, losses, goals, and fates.

Just when it seemed Batman would never be able to shake off his invincible karma, Nolan managed to reinvent his character, place him in the present day, and turn him into a vigilante. [Full review in Spanish]

[The cap to Nolan’s Batman trilogy] briefly suggests deconstructing [the Dark Knight's] victories and of those around him, only to tilt all the way back. Ultimately betraying itself and its characters.

Dfficult to follow up when it comes to the closing of this trilogy, and adding Talia al Ghul felt forced and unneeded. I felt like this film would have done better if they focused on building a better relationship between Batman and Bane...