If you head over to IMDB’s Top 250 Films of All Time you’ll notice that the recent Batman adaptation, The Dark Knight has topped the list with a 9.5 rating and 46,915 votes. I guess we just can’t trust IMDB anymore:

Note that MetaCritic gives a mere 82 for The Dark Knight, suggesting a good film, but not an instant classic. Yes, I’ll agree that now-dead Heath Ledger’s performance as the joker–his final performance–is stunning, it doesn’t make up for the marginalization of the character of Batman and Keannu Reaves-esque emotional range displayed by the caped Crusader. It also doesn’t make up for the terrible ending and the underdeveloped Harvey Dent plot.