The Dark Knight

The visuals soar and Heath Ledger's Joker is magnificent, although this Batman movie is grim and chilly, as if made for our age of anxiety.

"...do. Or so goes the nihilistic logic behind The Dark Knight, a grim little parable on the wages of..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Dark Knight Rises

An uncannily accurate mirror of the contemporary cultural zeitgeist, this epic finale to the Batman trilogy is just that: epic.

"...every generation gets the superhero it deserves, and Nolan's darkest of dark knights is surely ours – and no..."

July 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Barney Miller: Dark Knight

Holy Wojo, Batman, these sitcom detectives seem awful familiar!

"...director of the hybrid sketch/improv show called Barney Miller Dark Knight, a production that mashes up the old ABC..."

Oct. 19, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Alamo Releases Statement on Dark Knight Massacre

Austin cinema institution is "deeply saddened"

July 21, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Dark Right Rises

Rhetorical lows of the fringe right after Aurora attack

"...in Aurora, Colo., at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, the old saying about tragedy bringing out..."

July 25, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantasia Interview: A Vision Quest With Richard Bates Jr. in King Knight

Coven comedy where the witches are just like us. Dorks.

"...a provocateur. But even if he newest film, King Knight, seems softer he doesn't see it as that great..."

Aug. 8, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Encyclopedic documentary finds the global roots of a genre

"...place where King Arthur is buried. He and the Knight of the Round Table slumber under Alderley Edge, waiting..."

March 16, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

Encyclopedic and engrossing wander into the wilderness

"...place where King Arthur is buried. He and the Knight of the Round Table slumber under Alderley Edge, waiting..."

Sept. 28, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Another Shadow-Day Knight

The Harry Ransom Center uncasks the curious life and works of Edgar Allan Poe

"...stretches a long way back, the parameters of its darkness defined by many and diverse documents: the original manuscript,..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Film Critics Association Announces Year-End Awards

The Austin Film Critics Association loves it some bat

"...Critics Association just announced its 2008 awards, with The Dark Knight doing a lot of damage. Top ten anointed..."

Dec. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

This animated Batman is from the same folks behind the TV cartoon series, and is a diverting take on the Caped Crusader.

"...Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm. Not exactly the Dark Knight you'll always remember, but a diverting one, and..."

Dec. 31, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires

From the Vaults: Bats vs. Aurochs

Before "Beasts of the Southern Wild," there was "Glory at Sea"

"...This weekend The Dark Knight Rises has commandeered the national box office. In..."

July 20, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

DC Swoops Into SXSW to Kick Off Batman's 80th Anniversary

To the Bat-Bridge, Robin!

"...looking to launch the global celebration of a certain Dark Knight's 80th bat-day, where better than a spot where..."

March 15, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The LEGO Batman Movie

The Dark Knight returns to Legoland

"...hero’s brooding vigilante persona, brick-by-brick. It’s as if the Dark Knight somehow mated with the Caped Crusader, spawning a..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Overwrought take on DC Comics’ two most popular characters

"...characters, namely the Man of Steel (Cavill) and the Dark Knight (Affleck). Honestly, Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Legend

Tom Hardy pulls double duty playing both the criminal Kray twins

"...of those types again and again (Bronson, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road) and plays both..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Inception

Nolan's first film since The Dark Knight is a heist picture with an inventive twist.

"...Inception, Nolan’s first film since the eye-rollingly overpraised The Dark Knight, is a mind-bender bearing superficial resemblance to other..."

July 16, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Spirit

Graphic novelist Frank Miller delivers this film version of Will Eisner's classic comic-book series.

"...Miller, himself the celebrated creator of the Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Sin City graphic novels (and the..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Batman & Robin

"...quickly. As the series' third incarnation of Bob Kane's Dark Knight, Clooney is passable, but only just. He's got..."

June 20, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Batman Forever

"...what, previously, was a deliciously gothic take on the Dark Knight drags on interminably, filled to bursting with all..."

June 16, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

RoboCop 3

"...artist and writer Frank Miller (Sin City, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) co-wrote this story with director Dekker. But..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

July Is Crime Month: Batman Day

Holy Diamond Anniversary, Caped Crusader! Let's party!

"...The Dark Knight. The Caped Crusader. The Masked Manhunter. The World's..."

July 23, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Locke

In this bravura movie, Tom Hardy plays a man who tries to mend the unraveling threads of his life while behind the wheel of a car for 85 minutes.

"...Directed by: Steven Knight. Starring: Tom Hardy...."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Drive, He Said

A conversation with 'Locke'-smith Steven Knight

"...of as an ordinary tragedy," says his creator Steven Knight. From this premise, the writer/director – heretofore best known..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Film Critics Association 2008 Awards

The AFCA goes batty for the Batman

"...The Dark Knight..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Screens Feature

Screens Top 10s

The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year

"...The Dark Knight, The Wrestler, Vicky Cristina Barcelona MOST UNDERRATED..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

Batman: Gotham Knight

Six animated visions of the Caped Crusader, as envisioned by six unique animé directors and six different writers

"...Batman: Gotham KnightWarner Home Video, $29.98..."

July 18, 2008 Screens Review by Rick Klaw

Flora and Son

Joseph Gordon-Levitt steals the show in this Irish musical drama

"...Mysterious Skin, Brick, (500) Days of Summer, 50/50, The Dark Knight Rises and many more. Here, his deceptively low-key..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Color Out of Space

Lovecraft adaptation finally captures eldritch horror

"...Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Elliot Knight and Tommy Chong...."

Jan. 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Do We Really Need More Superhero Movies?

We asked local artists if we're approaching Peak Cape anytime soon

"...time travel or dystopianism. I can't stand the Nolan Dark Knight films, they're ruthlessly drab and dour, lacking any..."

April 25, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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