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Article: BAT RAVE; "The Dark Knight" is the brightest blockbuster of the year.(VITA.MN)(Movie review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 17, 2008
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Byline: COLIN COVERT; STAFF WRITER
Wrong vs. right, the individual vs. society, id vs. superego, action vs. reason, the Joker vs. Batman. There's a two-faced pleasure to be had in "The Dark Knight." Our rebellious impulses are excited by seeing an agent of chaos gleefully trample our societal norms, and our consciences are appeased by the cocky criminal's defeat.
The new chapter in the Batman saga expresses that tension in operatic style, with extravagant action counterbalancing the dramatic heft. Writer/director Christopher Nolan and his collaborators have delivered an elegant, urgent epic that doesn't just extend the franchise, but deepens it into a ...