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Just as everyone has a favorite Batman, everyone has their favorite Batman film. The Caped Crusader has gone through many eras on the big screen, including the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher C intelogy, Christopher Nolan Black knight Trilogy, Zack Snyder Justice League Films and Matt Reeves’ Batman.
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Batman begins (2005), who invigorated the franchise after the films of Schumacher divisors, we returned to our criticisms of each major title since 1989 BatmanClassified in accordance with the note of the letters given by the criticism of the EW at the exit.
NOTE: Batman: the film (1966) and Batman: fantasy mask (1993) have not received officials of official letters from EW and therefore do not appear on this list.
Batman begins (2005): a
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“”Batman beginsDirected by the independent storyteller Christopher Nolan (Memento), is a triumph – an original and captivating interpretation, with a seriously thought -out aesthetic point of view (but never auto -sérieux) who announces, from the start, someone who knows what he does is directing the show, and he is modest without fear of doing something new. “-Lisa Schwarzbaum
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The black knight (2008): a–
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“In The black knightChristopher Nolan of labyrinthine and an exciting suite of Batman beginsGood and evil are not only distinct forces – sometimes they whisper from each other – and the film gives off a predatory glamor that makes the comic films that have been before looking like children. “-Owen Gleiberman
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The film Lego Batman (2017): B +
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“”Lego Batman turns so quickly and moves so frantically that it becomes a little exhausting at the end. It flirts with too much a good thing. But rarely was the brainwashing of companies so fun and fell with such delicious aftertaste. “-Chris Nashawaty
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Batman forever (1995): B
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“Look Batman forever is a bit like spending two hours in a happy asylum. Just about all the characters in the film undergo a kind of identity crisis, but rather than making the image feel “ dark ”, these various cases of schizoids rebound like brightly colored billiards. Whether heroes or bad guys, they all seem to belong to the same breed of sparkling and disturbed exhibitionist. And the film itself is an extravagance with wacky tuneaux in which having a divided personality does not constitute a serious emotional trauma as much as it makes a fashion declaration. “”Owen Gleiberman
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The black knight goes up (2012): B
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“”The black knight goes up is still essentially a fanciful cap on an improbable billionaire by the name of Bruce Wayne who lives in a lugubrious single with his butler Alfred (faithfully played by Michael Caine) and who, during the fight against crime, closes in the city in a cape and a black rubbery hood. And following the precarious superposition of the major philosophical notions (can The system is fixed?) On the small pointed ears, the meticulously manufactured tale caroms and Nolan between a self-safety meditation on the way we live now and a Oof! Pow! Prolonged fist display between a good guy and a villain, amplified by the insistent percussion of the relentless score of Hans Zimmer. “-Lisa Schwarzbaum
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Batman (2022): B
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“Even Batmen get the blues. However, the damaged young billionaire by Robert Pattinson is perhaps the darkest knight to date: he returns, he is running, he slips a single blueberry – and although it is not quite the same thing as his great film, the receiver Matt Reeves almost to be in its extent. –Leah Greenblatt
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Batman (1989): B –
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“Not so much directed as the referees, this megalithic blow is greater but less energetic than [Tim] The two previous films of Burton. [Jack] The Nicholson Joker and the design of Anton Furst’s production are Dazzlers, but for a film directed by a former designer, Batman is surprisingly unanimous. However, Michael Keaton’s dismal hero provided surprising grace, and the video version is less troubled than you have seen in the theater. “-Ty Burr
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Batman returns (1992): B –
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“The story was never Burton’s strong point, but even when his films were not transparent, they felt like coherent pop visions. It is perhaps the first that does not hold together. Batman returns Too many competing characters, too many sets (each scene seems to take place on a different surreal sound scene), too many “ideas” that are not going. The film is a real spectacle, the lace of Burton’s black spirit, but in his mood eager to complain, he often remembers Steven Spielberg’s superproduction area in Steven Spielberg Hook. “-Owen Gleiberman
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Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016): C +
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“”Dawn of Justice Begins as an intriguing meditation about two superheroes turning to too human emotion: hatred of fear of the unknown. Two and a half hours later, he finds himself somewhere far from that – but at the same time, too familiar. It is another orgy of smuggling Smash-And-Bash of CGI chaos with an end that leaves the door wide enough to justify the next 10 payments. Is it too late to demand a revenge match? “-Chris Nashawaty
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Justice League (2017): C +
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“It’s obvious for anyone looking at Justice League Besides the other DC films that the Studio Brass transmitted a mandate to lighten the atmosphere and make things funnier and more wonderful. And, to a extent, Justice League accomplishes this. But it also seems that so much attention was given to smaller and more sparkling moments than the overview of the overall intrigue of the film was a second or third priority. One day, let’s hope it soon, DC will get the recipe again and DUPLIERA Wonderful womanThe magic of narration. But today is not that day, and Justice League Unfortunately, this is not this film. “-Chris Nashawaty
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Batman and Robin (1997): C–
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“Tim Burton Batman The films started in a perfect Germanic shadow, with imposing characters and desperate skyscrapers … With the departure of Burton, however, which had been a filmed graphic novel given to the clashes of comics; Joel Schumacher exchanged the opera style for SitCom SitCom word games well suited to occasional video visualization. But at Batman and RobinThe female characters have become so two -dimensional that they barely work as sex symbols. The Ivy Poison of Uma Thurman is a private imitation of Sun from Mae West; The Batgirl of Alicia Silverstone is so categorically drawn that it gives paper cuts. “-Stephen Whitty
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The Zack Snyder Justice League (2021): C–
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“The fervent support of social media and streaming despair of war has done #reasethesnydercut in the most successful fans campaign in history. Lovers can like the result: where you, Steppenwolfpack? And the HBO Max presentation could be ideal for content of content as little difficult. Dramas, dramas, dramas, dramas, dramas, dramas, dramas The Zack Snyder Justice League is a chore. At the end of the rainbow, viewers find themselves with the promise that cool things will happen next time. This cut is not worse than the theatrical edition, but it is certainly longer. “-Darren Franich
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