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[NO SPOILERS, don’t worry.] So finally, The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan’s followup to 2006’s Batman Begins is easily the most anticipated movie of the year, and early reviews have been unanimously positive (or as close to unanimous as is possible with this sort of movie). I’m gonna get the obvious bit out of the way first: Nobody is exaggerating when they say that Heath Ledger’s performance is jaw-droppingly good. His Joker is as creepy as Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter, as slimey as Robert De Niro’s Max Cady, and as malevolent as Kevin Spacey’s John Doe. In that sense, The Dark Knight does take a lot of cues from the old guard: there are smatterings of The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en all over this movie. Usually, I would rail at the unoriginal parts of any movie, but The Dark Knight’s influences are just that –... [read full story]
