First Reviews are In

Peter Travers of the Rolling Stone gives the first review (that I've seen) of The Dark Knight and goes ape-crap over it (pardon my french). He gives it 3 1/2 stars, but the review reads more like a 4 star, so I'm not sure what it would've taken to push the movie over that half a ledge exactly, but probably not much. There's probably some mild spoilers in here, but I read it anyway. The spoilers are pretty modest to non-existent, and reference more of the mood of the characters than anything substantive. Nonetheless, Travers throws out the possibility of a posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger, who he says is absolutely brilliant and memorable in his role as Joker. Comparisons are made to Kubrick's Clockwork Orange for Ledger and Pacino in The Godfather for Christian Bale, and then to Michael Mann's Heat for Nolan himself. Sounds like great company, and I'm really looking forward to it getting here. July 18 is still a long way away, though.