This Joker Holds All the Cards

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Dead Actor Kills In The Dark Knight
Published 7/18/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... "[Ledger's] performance is also the most interesting thing in the film, and when the Joker is absent, The Dark Knight loses most of its energy and dynamism." Washington Post "People will go on and on about Heath Ledger, and it's all very much warranted." ...

The Dark Knight : The Movie's Out, The Reviews Are In, And Heath Ledger Is Amazing [Critical Mass]
Published 7/18/2008 by Maria at Jezebel
... conflicts that build until Gotham becomes less a setting than a stage for an operatic conflict between tortured good and contented chaos. As strong as The Dark Knight 's setpieces are—and they're all pulsing showstoppers of a kind not seen in Batman Begins —the real tension comes from Nolan's willingness to let that battle's ultimate outcome remain in doubt even as the credits roll. The film's capes and cowls suggest one genre, but it's a metropolis-sized tragedy at heart. Washington Post : This is not because Heath Ledger died in January, though that event does perhaps add ...