Criterion have bucked the trend of December being a "quiet" month, releasing their second "Trilogy of Life" box set in as many months, the original film adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Christopher Nolan's first feature, and a long-awaited Blu-grade of Brazil.
The new Batman movie is a very close spiritual sibling to Fred Zinneman's High Noon, both in thematic choices as well as delivery on expectations. The two films do not match up identically, mind you, but the similarities are too numerous to ignore. Those similarities are largely the reason that I enjoyed The Dark Knight Rises so much.