Joel Karpowitz’s review published on Letterboxd:
Listen, I know what the critical consensus seems to be, and I get it. It's overlong, it's a bit of a muddle, and it breaks some cardinal rules of Batmanology when the Dark Knight appears to straight up kill several people (or does it not count if they blow up?).
But I'll be damned if I didn't have a really great time watching this. Rewatching Man of Steel (which I didn't like the first time) prior to going made me both appreciate the direction Snyder was taking and see this film as a natural outgrowth of that one, wrestling with similar questions: what does it mean to be good? What responsibility do you hold to people around you? What role does fear play in our obsession with superheroes?
We want a world where supermen can just come out of the sky to solve our problems, but Snyder's vision rejects the easy answers of truth, justice, and the American way and asks if our solutions don't just feed into a cycle of chaos. It's a pretty apt take on superheroes in the 21st century, and it's a nice counter to the more kid-friendly Marvel Universe.
Plus Affleck is a damn good Batman. And Wonder Woman was a revelation.
Is it perfect? Far from it. But I still loved it and can't wait for the next DC movie.