A strong, exceptional film that deserves to be looked at with similar awe and reverence as the other two entries in the Dark Knight trilogy.

| Oct 5, 2024

Saved by some top-tier performances from Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt - The Dark Knight Rises suffers from over-indulgence elsewhere. A fragmented plot diminishes the impact of Nolan's DC swansong, and robs it of momentum.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 14, 2024

[Nolan's] films are a pure and genuine model for what story and setting should be as well as, creating a human touch to the whole aspect of these legends we’ve read in comic books.

| Jul 28, 2024

Every character is beyond three-dimensional and fleshed out with dynamic emotions, origins, strengths, flaws, victories, losses, goals, and fates.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 7, 2024

Just when it seemed Batman would never be able to shake off his invincible karma, Nolan managed to reinvent his character, place him in the present day, and turn him into a vigilante. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 10/10 | Mar 11, 2024

[The cap to Nolan’s Batman trilogy] briefly suggests deconstructing [the Dark Knight's] victories and of those around him, only to tilt all the way back. Ultimately betraying itself and its characters.

| Oct 17, 2023

Capping off such a successful series is a near-impossible task, with Nolan's circumvention of expectations being wholly effective, even with its minor setbacks in narrative absurdities.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 24, 2023

The Dark Knight Rises presents itself as a deeply fascinating examination of Batman because it’s an examination and deconstruction of the previous two entries. A lot of the ideas present in The Dark Knight are deliberately flipped on their head here.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 21, 2023

While this film had the impossible task of falling after the one-two mega-punch of The Dark Knight and Inception, Nolan capped his Batman trilogy with aplomb.

| Jul 20, 2023

It still might not be quite the conclusion we all wanted, but let's be fair, it is the engaging, exhilarating epic finale moviegoers deserved.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 26, 2022

It’s a text book lesson on the melding of big budget flamboyance with smart and challenging storytelling.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

[Christopher] Nolan thinks big and directs in like fashion, giving the film the scale of an epic and enormous set pieces that threaten to overwhelm the story.

| Jul 9, 2022

Christopher Nolan elevates his genre and stretches the limits of blockbuster filmmaking with a boldly artistic, wildly ambitious production that is as evocative as it is impressive.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022

I'll never relegate Nolan to the status of a Michael Bay, of course - he's not dumb, he isn't just surface flash. But he's not the Kubrick he thinks he is, either

| Jul 14, 2021

A spectacular but irregular closing to the adventures of Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale's Batman. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 9, 2021

The Dark Knight Rises colors the superhero film as it's come to be defined by Marvel in a grimier shade, and features multiple Oscar winners to boot.

| Apr 19, 2021

A brilliant example, through Batman and a superhero lens, of the power of revolution as a national myth, and how it can come to define a society.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2021

Even with a twisting mystery and numerous new characters, the lengthy and overly complex plotline overshadows many of the more fascinating elements.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 1, 2020

It is the perfect film for what it needs to be.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

The Dark Knight Rises may not always "click" intellectually, but it delivers some of the most rousing emotional highs of Nolan's career.

| Sep 2, 2020