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

Full Review | 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]

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Oct 17, 2023

Dfficult to follow up when it comes to the closing of this trilogy, and adding Talia al Ghul felt forced and unneeded. I felt like this film would have done better if they focused on building a better relationship between Batman and Bane...

Full Review | Sep 26, 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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

Full Review | Jul 14, 2021

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

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

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Sep 2, 2020

Here Christopher Nolan brilliantly closes the final chapter of one of the most amazing film trilogies of recent times. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 25, 2020

A GREAT FINAL for the trilogy. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Apr 22, 2020