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Let's wind the clocks back to 2008. America was in the middle of an election year. Gotham City's two baseball teams, the Mets AND the Yankees, were playing their final seasons in their respect home ballparks. Marvel had just released a little movie called IRON MAN starring the at-the-time problematic Robert Downey Jr. that no one knew would launch a historic franchise and a wave of superhero film that would dominate the industry going forward. In the midst of all this, Christopher Nolan's sequel to BATMAN BEGINS hit theaters over the summer and immediately received acclaim that transcended the "superhero" or "comic book" genre and is widely regarded as one of the best versions to ever exist. THE DARK KNIGHT was a gamechanger critically (94% of Rotten Tomatoes), prestigiously (8 Oscar nominations, including 2 wins) and financially ($1.05-billion grossed worldwide) and showcases one of the greatest on screen performances of all-time from Heath Ledger as The Joker. Over time, it's legacy has only grown as many credit this film with the Academy Awards move to expand their Best Picture category to 10 nominations and creating a level of quality or standard that all movies based on similar IP need to meet. join Andrew Claudio & Bernard Ozarowski as they decide whether to shoot Coleman Reese or blow up the other boat in the Final Review that Gotham deserves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the very first episode of Final Review, we head back to 2004 for David Fincher & Aaron Sorkin's tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts as a young Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) enlists the helps of a few college buddies, specifically the business savvy Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), to create the website we all know today as Facebook. "The Social Network" is widely regarded as one of the best movies of the 21st century and meets our qualifications by having 95% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes & earned EIGHT Oscar nominations, including THREE wins for Screenplay, Score & Editing. Join Andrew Claudio & Bernard Ozarowski as they sort through their friend requests and discover just exactly where in the all-time film pantheon this 2010 masterpiece ranks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this introductory episode, meet your hosts - Andrew Claudio & Bernard Ozarowski. Hear all about their brand new movie podcast, what movies their will be covering, what format they will be using to discuss each movie and what criteria each movie has meet in order to qualify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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