If you needed more than a post on Ain’t It Cool News to tell you The Dark Knight was good, then you’re in luck.

Today, Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) and the David Germain (Associated Press) both heaped their praise on the latest Batman sequel.

Here are some of the highlights from the reviews posted today:

ROLLING STONE:

“The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan’s absolute stunner of a follow-up to 2005’s Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked out as a comic-book movie.”

“The haunting and visionary Dark Knight soars on the wings of untamed imagination. It’s full of surprises you don’t see coming. And just try to get it out of your dreams.”

(Read the full review here.)

ASSOCIATED PRESS:

“Running just over two and a half hours, The Dark Knight is a true crime epic. Throughout, the Joker’s bag of tricks is bottomless, twisted to the point of horror-flick sick.”

“At times sounding like a cross between tough guy James Cagney in a gangster flick and Philip Seymour Hoffman’s fastidious Truman Capote, Ledger elevates Batman’s No. 1 nemesis to a place even Jack Nicholson did not take him in 1989’s Batman.”

(Read the full review here.)

The Dark Knight premieres on July 18.