A Most Violent Year vs The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6.6/10 for A Most Violent Year). A Most Violent Year is the shorter watch at 2h 4m compared with 2h 45m. The Dark Knight Rises is the older of the two (2012 against 2014). Both are crime, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

A Most Violent Year posterA Most Violent Year2014 VS The Dark Knight Rises posterThe Dark Knight Rises2012
A Most Violent YearThe Dark Knight Rises
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 7.8/10
Year20142012
Length2h 4m2h 45m
GenresCrime, Drama, ThrillerAction, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorJ.C. ChandorChristopher Nolan
Main castOscar Isaac, Elyes Gabel, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Jessica Chastain, Albert BrooksTom Hardy, Ben Mendelsohn, Aidan Gillen, Matthew Modine, Michael Caine

Synopsis

A Most Violent Year

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

The Dark Knight Rises

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

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