Has anyone seen The Dark Knight? We were thinking of checking it out this week. Looks like a solid review on Rotten Tomatoes. Interesting excerpt including DSM-IV references from another review on TimeOut Chicago:
Nolan’s sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins internalizes the schism between serious aims and summer-movie duties. The problem isn’t the admittedly jaw-dropping Sturm und Drang—this is Batman, not Bergman—but how the pummeling action rarely informs the psychological angst. Still wrestling with a DSM-IV’s worth of disorders, the Caped Crusader (Bale) now has to contend with Harvey Dent (Eckhart), a district attorney with a transformative face-lift coming his way, and the Joker (Ledger). Thankfully, an origin story isn’t offered for the grinning archnemesis; he simply appears like the Ebola virus, armed with an appetite for destruction and John Wayne Gacy’s makeup manual. What the late actor accomplishes with little more than a nurse uniform and a Groucho Marx waddle makes the various set pieces—never mind Bale’s raspy, remote characterization—pale in comparison.
