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All the world’s Gotham City in Christopher Nolan’s ambitious Batman trilogy, which comes to an emphatic conclusion with “The Dark Knight Rises.” The Cecil B. DeMille scale of the film delivers a whole lotta movie that says “epic” almost as much as “blockbuster.” ==I — PC==

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