** In honor of the release of The Dark Knight Rises, I want to revisit an article I wrote when Batman Begins opened. Let me take you back to 2006… **
Those of you who have read this site for long know that one of the reasons I decided to become a movie reviewer was because I was tired of reading the same ol’ reviews by the same ol’ critics who seem to think their job is to attempt to impress people with their deft usage of a thesaurus. Either that or they have an old English professor whose approval they still desperately desire. That’s why many of my readers have dubbed me the “anti-critic.”