Michael Wood (
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/icwt/whoweare/mwood.html) slumming it in the LRB, reviewing The Dark Knight:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n16/wood01a.html "He is not only someone we don’t understand, he is the image of everything we don’t understand, a travesty of highly intelligent, meaningless design."
Er, he's referring to the Joker, there.