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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

PG-1307/17/2012Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller2h 45m
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The legend ends.

Overview

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

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    Christian Bale

    Bruce Wayne

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    Gary Oldman

    Commissioner Gordon

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    Tom Hardy

    Bane

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    Joseph Gordon-Levitt

    Blake

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    Anne Hathaway

    Selina

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    Marion Cotillard

    Miranda

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    Morgan Freeman

    Fox

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    Michael Caine

    Alfred

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    Matthew Modine

    Foley

While it's clearly not as superlative as its famous predecessor, it's simply because of both Heath Ledger's outstanding and Oscar-winning performance, and the character of the Joker's etching in our collective unconscious as the greatest comic-book villain ever created (with Lex Luthor a very distant second place). This is still a masterwork, and is an excellent coda to the finest filmic trilogy ever made. As great as Christopher Nolan is as a director, and as fine a film as 'Interstellar' is, I really don't know if he'll ever be able to top his work here, on these three films. But I, for one,...