Daily Plastic: The Dark Knight

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
The Dark Knight Trailer . IMDB	Other comic-book films turn into CGI shoot-em-ups at this point, while the Nolans have built their action climax around Bruce Wayne's interlocking complexes, testing them like clinical psychologists running a behavioral experiment the size of Chicago. Robert Davis Paste Magazine	A superhero movie of unusual psychological complexity... The Joker of The Dark Knight is all the more terrifying for not having a plan or an identifiable motive. Scott Foundas Village Voice Thrilling, heady and, as befitting its title, exceedingly dark, it's epic pulp, or perhaps more accurately, it's pulp transformed through auteurist artistry into a piercingly relevant morality play epic. Nick Schager Slant Magazine Yeah, well The morality play is intriguing, but a lot of the dialogue should have stayed on paper. David Edelstein New York Magazine Nolan lets the film's spectacular action scenes seem like the natural consequences of the conflicts between characters, conflicts that build until Gotham becomes less a setting than a stage for an operatic conflict between tortured good and contented chaos. Keith Phipps Onion AV Club The Joker, though, takes all his pleasure from the sheer existential frenzy roused by murder, thievery and mayhem. He's a wretched conceit of a character - a homicidal philosopher-jester. Michael Sragow Baltimore Sun

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