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This week several pre-screenings of THE DARK KNIGHT were held in the U.S. and the first reviews are making their way to the net. To date, I haven't read a single bad one. Quite the opposite. The more I read, the more I come to the conclusion, that THE DARK KNIGHT could be a "one of a kind" picture, instead of "just another superhero flick".
Here is a snippet of Massawyrm from aintitcool:

I love The Incredible Hulk. I love the living shit out of Iron Man. And as you all know, Hellboy 2 made me squeal with childish glee. But this? This is the first Oscar quality superhero movie. This is the one we will look back upon 20 years from now and hold it to be superior to most everything that came after it. I want to say that this is like Wrath of Khan or Superman 2, but really this is better than that. This is The Empire Strikes Back of superhero films.

I can say without any hesitation that THE DARK KNIGHT is a spectacular piece of storytelling, that it is as giant a leap forward from the first film as EMPIRE did from STAR WARS or that Godfather Part II did from the first, that all this talk of Heath Ledger being nominated for his work as The Joker isn’t just industry buzz capitalizing on the tragic and far too premature death of the actor. He will be nominated and he would have been nominated had he been alive to see the film open.

[Ledgers Joker] "is simply one of the most twisted and mesmerizing creeps in movie history."

"The Dark Knight is an epic that will leave you staggering from the theater, stunned by its scope and complexity."

Heath Ledger is "a dead cert" to win the Oscar for his portrayal of The Joker. Edwards says that the late actor "is the brilliant heart of a superhero movie that's like nothing you've ever seen before. ... the finest superhero movie in years."