"Nolan’s Bruce-Batman has oscillated between seemingly opposite poles, even as he’s always come out a superhero. He is savior and destroyer, human and beast, the ultimate radical individualist and people’s protector. Yet as the series evolved, this binary opposition has grown progressively messier, less discrete. In between juggling the cool bat toys, demure kisses, hard punches and loud bangs, Nolan has layered barely veiled references to terrorism, the surveillance state and vengeance as a moral imperative. His kinetic filmmaking pulses with realism and to the primal fear that the people could at any moment, as in the French Revolution, become the mob that drags the rest of us into chaos. Nolan shifts between a multitude of characters and as many locations without losing you, his narrative thread or momentum. His playfulness with the scenes-within-scenes in his last movie, "Inception," has paid off here -- the controlled fragmentation works on a pleasurable, purely cinematic level." - Adriano

cancelling this weekend... as Baudrillard would say, "it is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody -- it's rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself." - Adriano