Rotten Tomatoes Suspends Comments On 'dark Knight'

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Tue, 07/17/2012 - 5:32pm

The aggregating Web site RottenTomatoes.com suspended user comments on movie reviews of "The Dark Knight Rises" after commenters reacted harshly to negative reviews of the film and made profane and threatening remarks about the critics who wrote them.

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