The Dark Knight

Batman District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Gordon form an alliance to clean up Gotham’s organized crime. Then the Joker arrives — not to gain power or money but simply to prove that civilization is a thin coat of paint over chaos. Heath Ledger’s posthumous Oscar-winning performance is one of the most extraordinary pieces of acting in cinema history: genuinely unpredictable philosophically terrifying and impossible to look away from. Christopher Nolan’s superhero film transcends the genre to become a profound meditation on order morality and the price of fighting darkness without becoming it.