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Critic: Heath Ledger Should Win Oscar

Mollygood found this 6/26/2008 on usmagazine.com

One of the first reviews of The Dark Knight hails Heath Ledger 's performance of the Joker. "I can only speak superlatives of Ledger, who is mad-crazy-blazing brilliant as the Joker," Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers writes. "It's typical of Ledger's total commitment to films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain and I'm Not There that he does nothing out of vanity or the need to be liked," Travers continues. "Ledger's Joker has no gray areas — he's all rampaging id," the critic ...