This is from entertainment.time.com
In 55 wide-ranging lists, Time surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad of the past 12 months. Coming in at number five on the list of the top ten movies
is The Dark Knight Rises.
5. The Dark Knight Rises
Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) and an idealistic young cop (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) must save Gotham from a blight named Bane (Tom Hardy), with occasional help or
intrusion from a lovely philanthropist (Marion Cotillard) and the revived Catwoman (Anne Hathaway). All five are orphans
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in masks; they repress or express their true natures by playing roles.
Christopher Nolan’s stupendous climax to his Batman trilogy is a masquerade too. Nolan is pretending to be a director of comic-book entertainment, when he’s
really out to excoriate Americans’ greed, laziness and implicit yearning for an omnipotent father figure, whether superhero or demagogue.
In a tragic coincidence, another masked man strode into an Aurora, Colo., movie house in a Bane-like gas mask during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises
and slaughtered a dozen people. The killer, identified as James Holmes, hadn’t seen the movie, but he underlined its mordant thesis: that in the real America, the
creature that emerges from our dreams and into the night sky is as likely to be a madman as a savior.
Time Magazine's list of the top ten movie was writen by Richard Corliss.
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