Ben Mendelsohn

A “human nature film,” a crime drama that observes cops and robbers in their natural habitat and studies their instinctual behaviors.

The Nolans consider the issues of the day...explore the role of legendary heroes (from Robin Hood to Batman and Robin) in galvanizing the public, and labor mightily to ensure that how their Batman ends dovetails with 2005’s Batman Begins.

A biblical epic in 2014 is a strange beast indeed, walking a fine line in the hopes of pleasing both the faithful...and those audiences more accustomed to secular myths.

Will give die-hard Star Wars fans multiple orgasms...runneth over with Star Wars spectacle.

Conjures plenty of empty spectacle...but doesn’t underpin it with characters that move beyond the generic or, more crucially, the productively sharp satire that just maybe could have saved this ain’t-it-cool story from itself. 

To watch another obscure hero beget a franchise-building smash-hit movie means marveling at Marvel once again.