Rolling StonePotent and provocative, The Dark Knight Rises is the King Daddy of summer movie epics.
Wall Street JournalIt's spectacular, to be sure, but also remarkable for its all-encompassing gloom.
New York PostChristopher Nolan's dramatically and emotionally satisfying wrap-up to the Dark Knight trilogy adroitly avoids clichés and g...
Washington PostNolan has made a completely satisfying movie with The Dark Knight Rises, one steeped enough in self-contained mythology to r...
New York Daily NewsWhile director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale's epic of criminality and all-consuming conviction ultimately falls...
Los Angeles TimesA disturbing experience we live through as much as a film we watch, this dazzling conclusion to director Christopher Nolan's...
The Boston GlobeIn case you'd forgotten - and the summer of 2012 has given us much to forget - this is what a superhero movie is supposed to...
San Francisco ChronicleMoments are stretched. Every recollection must be illustrated by a flashback. Character motivations shift on a dime, and if ...
USA TodayA fitting conclusion to an artful trilogy, culminating with satisfying dazzle, despite some notable flaws.
The Philadelphia InquirerProduction-wise, effects-wise, Nolan's movie - much of its big action sequences shot with Imax cameras - is spectacular.
Salon ArtsArguably the biggest, darkest, most thrilling and disturbing and utterly balls-out spectacle ever created for the screen.
SlateAt over two hours and forty minutes long, with repeated scenes of bone-crunching violence and a maddeningly unrelenting perc...
TelegraphRobbie Collin reviews the third and final instalment of Christopher Nolan's Batman films The Dark Knight Rises.
JobloWhile he may be done with the Batman series, I have a feeling Nolan himself is only getting started- and I can’t wait to see...
The Movie Picture ShowThe Dark Knight Rises serves its purpose as an official ending to a fantastic trilogy that changed the genre and Hollywood a...
Film-BookThe Dark Knight Rises sank from a comic book film adaptation into a Schumacher-grade, liveaction cartoon.
Black Sheep ReviewsThe conflict this time around is more visually destructive than it is psychologically disturbing.
TelegraphRobbie Collin reviews the third and final instalment of Christopher Nolan's Batman films The Dark Knight Rises.
TelegraphThe final film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy impresses in its energy, ambition and spectacle – but it'll also leave ...
The GuardianChristopher Nolan brings the curtain down on his grim Batman trilogy with Wagnerian confidence – but Heath Ledger's absence ...
Aint It Cool NewsI really wanted to like it, but there is a lot here you have to take with a grain of salt.
FirstShowingThe Dark Knight Rises is just the right note for Nolan's Batman symphony to end on. Thank God he got to end it on the note h...
Film School RejectsIt is much bigger. But it’s also much colder, much more dour and emptier as it plods its way from spectacular action sequenc...
Cinema BlendThe Dark Knight Rises is appropriately big and ambitious, and it's unlikely we'll see anyone make a superhero movie with Nol...
Chicago Sun-Times"The Dark Knight Rises" leaves the fanciful early days of the superhero genre far behind, and moves into a doom-shrouded, ap...
ReelViewsYes, there are flaws, but The Dark Knight Rises gives this Batman trilogy a platform high atop the superhero pyramid from wh...
JobloTHE DARK KNIGHT RISES is impressive indeed. Hans Zimmer creates a haunting and methodical score that swells underneath the f...
ComingSoonThe story isn't quite as solid as "The Dark Knight" and the main villains aren't quite as memorable, but having a director w...
/FilmThe Dark Knight Rises certainly accomplishes these things, but in the same way as driving a Batmobile to an urban dinner par...
CinefoolsThis is essentially a solid and spectacular chunk of blockbuster gold. If you like movies, you will probably like this one.
Entertainment WeeklyChaos reigns for much of The Dark Knight Rises, often in big, beautiful, IMAX-size scenes that only Nolan could have conceiv...
TelegraphThe Dark Knight Rises, the final Batman film in Christopher Nolan's trilogy starring Christian Bale, is a sinewy crime epic ...
The GuardianChristian Bale's tormented Batman duly rises for Christopher Nolan's bruising saga of revolution and redemption
Hollywood ReporterA truly grand finale raises Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy to the peak of big-screen comic book adaptations.
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Partial Film Information
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: David Goyer
Studio: Warner Bros Pictures
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman
Release: July 20, 2012
Writer: David Goyer
Studio: Warner Bros Pictures
Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman
Release: July 20, 2012
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