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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 26

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "Alfred, could you come here for a sec?"

  "Yes, Master Bruce?"

  "Did you let Vicki Vale in the Batcave?"

  "..."

  "Y'know I'm trying to maintain a secret identity here, right?"

  "Yes, Master Bruce."

  "Kinda hard to do that when YOU LET RANDOM WOMEN IN HERE."

  "Yes, Master Bruce."

  "And this was AFTER I told her we had to go out of town and YOU immediately told her we weren't going out of town! HOW DUMB DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE?"

  "Yes, Master Bruce."

  "Look, I hate to do this. You're a good guy, and you make a really good bowl of chowder. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to let you go."

  "But... Master Bruce..."…

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★ 11

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  My favorite part of my billionth viewing of Batman: When Joker’s goons shoot Batman, rather than lift up his mask to see who he is, they decide to check if the man disguised as a giant bat carries photo ID. Bob the Goon literally says “Check his wallet.” Check his wallet! This is probably why he’s Bob the Goon, not Bob the Theoretical Physicist.

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  Review by Ruben ★★★★ 2

  Michael Keaton be like 👄

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  Review by Sam Van Hallgren ★★★★★ 35

  Count me among those few who prefers this to any of the Nolan films.

  After revisiting for the first time in at least a decade (and likely two decades), I discovered a film whose power comes from a rare alchemy of artifice, absurdity and horror. It starts with the score. Elfman's work is one for the ages and does a lot of heavy lifting early in the film (specifically making Nicholson's Jack Napier about 80% more sinister in those early scenes). Secondly, the set design - with special adoring emphasis on that first shot of Gotham, all dark, smudged pastels, like something out of Caligari or Metropolis. The opening scene when we're introduced to Keaton's Batman is impeccable. His "I'm…

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★ 1

  batman be like get in alfred 🚙 we going shopping 👛😙🛍

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★

  On the one hand, the Joker is a sadistic sociopath who tortures the residents of Gotham City and murders innocent people for kicks. On the other hand, he gives his underlings the coolest purple leather shearling jackets I have ever seen. So while I abhor his actions and do not in any way condone his methods, I do sort of understand why he has so many goons working for him.

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★★★ 4

  I just want to talk to Michael Keaton about his decision to play Bruce Wayne as an alien completely baffled by ordinary human behavior.

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  Review by san ★★★½ 3

  *sees michael keaton play a bird-type superhero*
  me: nice birdman reference

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 19

  *Was a 78, now a 96*

  Tim Burton's Batman is such a fascinating relic because of what it recalled and what it seemed to embody. Its references, from The Wizard of Oz to King Kong and Public Enemy; to The Band Wagon and Vertigo, not to mention its array of expressionistic modes; are immense, in a sense operating as the ultimate detective comic-book romance horror movie. It has everything you could want in an intro picture, being both a grand backlot studio pageant and a tortured battle for individual expression. The analog dexterity of the model work, matte paintings, optical effects, in addition to the tangibility of the set-design, suggests a pinnacle of what blockbuster product would evolve into if…

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  Review by adambolt ★★★ 1

  trying to work out the tactical advantage of making a suit with a neck that can't move

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  Review by karen h. 1

  the thing about jack nicholson as the joker is that he’s thicc

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 1

  "Never rub another man's rhubarb!"

  Visually radical, technically dazzling, tonally schizophrenic, and closer to those infamous Schumacher sequels than you'd probably care to admit. Can't imagine something like this getting released today, much less being a keystone piece of intellectual property.