The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Simultaneously the darkest, silliest, most brutal and dumb film of the series. It’s a total fucking mess, but a rather enjoyable one, which I will take over the highly controlled boredom of Batman Begins. C+

Inception (2010)

The second viewing really makes the clunky exposition even clunkier, but it really does a lot of astonishing things that far outweigh those annoyances. A-