The Dark Knight
It's from 2008, when you were 2.
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Genre
- Superhero crime
- Star
- Heath Ledger
- Released
- 2008
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About
As of 2026, it's 18 years old.
The Dark Knight transcended the superhero genre in 2008 and became a genuine cultural event, largely on the strength of Heath Ledger's anarchic, indelible Joker — a performance so good it won a posthumous Oscar, the first ever for a comic-book movie. A crime epic disguised as a Batman film, it asked how far a hero can go before becoming the villain.
'Why so serious?', the disappearing-pencil trick, and that interrogation scene became instantly iconic and elevated the whole genre's ambitions.
Dark, ambitious, and landmark, The Dark Knight is the superhero film that earned its place among the year's best movies, period.
