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[Director Christopher] Nolan... gives us enough multilayered subplots to at least fool us into thinking this is a work of intellectual and moral complexity. But as a piece of visual storytelling, from shot to shot, The Dark Knight is a mess. Characters disappear from one locale and show up inexplicably in another, thanks to the magic of editing. At one point, we learn two characters have been abducted, but Nolan doesn't bother to show us who did it or how. (Later, he explains the "who did it" with dialogue — the lazy way.) At the end, a major character is left hanging, literally, as we are figuratively. If this is genius, give me hackery.

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It's a movie barely fit for a cretin, much less a King.... If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building — in disgust.

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Children of Men is a solemn, haunting picture, but it's also a thrilling one, partly because of the sheer bravado with which it's made. It left me feeling more fortified than drained. [Director Alfonso] Cuarón, the most openhearted of directors, prefers to give rather than take away.

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