Every Christopher Nolan film ranked from worst to best .
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Having set the superhero gold standard with his previous venture into Gotham, The Dark Knight (see below), Nolan set himself a near-insurmountable task with its follow-up. The Dark Knight Rises, which brings Christian Bale’s brooding Batman out of an eight-year self-imposed exile to save the day again, is a perfectly solid trilogy closer containing all the comic-book bells and whistles you’d expect. But although Tom Hardy’s masked man Bane makes for a physically imposing – if indecipherable – villain, he’s no Joker. And while Nolan has since dismissed accusations of pro-capitalist propaganda, its anti-Occupy Wall Street messaging suggests otherwise. It might be the highest-grossing film in the franchise (and his career), but it’s the least essential. (Stream on Prime Video, Netflix or Now. Rent on YouTube, Google Play, Apple TV or Sky Store). (Photo: Warner Bros/AP)
