3. THE DARK KNIGHT
When this magnificently despairing, anarchic follow-up to Batman Begins was first released last summer, the death of bright talent Heath Ledger was still so fresh that every minute of his indelible turn as the Joker provoked shocks of pain as well as of pleasure. Watched again with the passage of time and the changing, too, of the American political landscape, Christopher Nolan's triumph of comic-book relevance, starring Christian Bale as a superhero uneasy with his calling in a city anesthetized to matter-of-fact evil, takes on new and even more poignant shadings of relevance.
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